You Are Free From All Your Regrets!

Words of Encouragement

Beloved,

I know what you’re thinking of sometimes brother, sometimes you are counting the regrets, you are thinking if only you had done this, if only you had done that then perhaps things could not be as they are.

Yes, there is a place in time all that its your call for repentance. Perhaps now you realise that you should have been more careful with your words to your wife, you should have been more diligent as a father. Whatever it is -just repent, and every time it comes to mind, forget about it because the Lord has forgotten about it and so should you.

Carrying regrets can overwhelm you and you can spend days thinking and re-thinking what you cannot change. I realize that you can be full of regret because you know now what sort of man you should have been. But let me tell you, carrying regret will not help your journey. Thinking about the way your wife treated you, how you are treated her, how you could’ve reacted better is valid only for repentance not for a daily burden.

Psalm 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

There is a Christian singer who says in her song that she is breaking up and moving on from her past. How appropriate is that! do you know that through repentance you have been forgiven? Do you know that today you can shake off all your regrets? This means you can shake off everything bad that you have done; everything that was not working in your marriage and move on. Look forward to the new thing that the Lord is doing in your life.

Isaiah 43:18-19
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland

If you follow the Lord, if you are sincere in your heart and pursue change, IF and you love him and he loves you because he loves you back you can happily break up with regret today afterall all things will work for your good.

Let me tell you this, think about all the things you are free from; think about what the Lord could free you from if your focus on him during this time. I know this sounds worldly but take this time as an opportunity to get better become a better man of God because it’s just you and him this time for a season. He’s taking on everything else onto himself so that you can focus just on Him. He has laid you with his light yoke so that he can take your heavy yoke, he wants to take your burdens. Will you let him? Some of those burdens are regrets constantly and the looking back reminiscing- shake them all off!

God is always doing a new thing, he wants you to forget the old so that you can focus on the new. And when you focus on the new you will realize that you are letting go of a lot of old things, time to focus on new habits, time to focus on new character, time to put on a new character from Jesus. It’s not time to regret.

Isaiah 65: 17 (ESV)
See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.

~ Tad in Australia