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Regrets do serve a purpose.\u00a0 When we regret having done something, we learn from it so we can move on and do better.\u00a0 It’s when we decide to pitch a tent in those regrets and live there that they become destructive.<\/p>\nRegrets do serve a purpose.\u00a0 When we regret having done something, we learn from it so we can move on and do better.\u00a0 It’s when we decide to pitch a tent in those regrets and live there that they become destructive.<\/p>\n
No matter how bad we messed up, wallowing in our sorrows will not help us, or anyone involved in the situation.\u00a0 Reparations may be due: make them.\u00a0 Apologies may be required: offer them.\u00a0 Then move on.\u00a0 At some point we have to lay aside regrets and get on with the business of doing better.<\/p>\n
This is a common bit of wisdom offered by secular and Christian sources alike.\u00a0 The first part of\u00a0 Romans 8:28<\/a> is often quoted, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God,” but what they tend to snip off is the second part of that statement: “to those who are the called according to His purpose.”\u00a0 that means that this statement applies to those who are submitting themselves to the will of God.\u00a0 Those who say, “Yes, I believe there is a God.” but deny His power and sovereignty have no claim in this statement.<\/p>\n We also need to acknowledge that sometimes bad things happen to us because we made bad choices.\u00a0 God does not delight in pushing the chess pieces of our lives around in such a way as to torture us. God does not do this even with the lost: judgement comes when this age is done, not before.<\/p>\n God can use situations to help us grow or to bring us closer to Him … if we let Him.\u00a0 But God does not author these situations.\u00a0 It is important to understand that God does not force anyone to think or behave in a certain way.\u00a0 He created us with free will so we could choose to love and follow Him, or to reject Him.\u00a0 Throughout our lives we are free to choose our path, but we are not free of the consequences, or regrets, of the choices we make.<\/p>\n Sometimes we can be doing everything right and still get caught up in a mess of someone else’s making.\u00a0 If you get broadsided by someone who ran a red light it does not mean you did anything wrong, the other person did, you just happened to be in the way.\u00a0 Sometimes that’s just the way it is with life: we can be doing the best we are able, but some other situation boils over and catches us up in it.\u00a0 In these times we turn to God for strength, not explanations, and we must not saddle ourselves with unwarranted regrets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regrets do serve a purpose. When we regret having done something, we learn from it so we can move on and do better. It’s when we decide to pitch a tent in those regrets and live there that they become destructive. No matter how bad we messed up, wallowing in our sorrows will not help … Continue reading “Life Is Too Short For Regrets”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[78,26,56],"class_list":["post-10920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-christian","tag-life-2","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20222,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10920\/revisions\/20222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}