Regret

How many decisions do we make each day? Hundreds probably; food, thoughts, bed time, words, money and so on. We make small decisions each and every day. If you don't make good choices you will go on to regret them. When you are old you will look back on your life and see nothing but a series of regrets for the actions we took and the actions we didn't. We all need someone to help teach us how to make wise choices and that someone is God.

As Christians we ought to make better choices, but many make very bad decisions. We wax lyrical about freedom but that comes with a responsibility. Being free to make our own choice means that it is us that chooses the seed to be planted which will then grow into either a good or a bad harvest.

We go through periods where we have to make life changing decisions; marriage, divorce, children, employment. The worst thing that you can ever do is keep on doing the same thing over and over and expect to get a different result. If you want to see a change you need to change what you are doing. Every new, fresh and correct decision that you make helps to reverse the effects of the wrong decisions you made in the past.

Within modern society it would be impossible to make truly good decisions if we followed current society's norms. Society is fast and infiltrated by the devil. We need to think before we speak. Is what we are about to say a wise decision or is it idle gossip or similar? If we don't think before we speak and make a bad choice about what we say we end up causing upset, then regretting it, then having to repent. If we think first, none of this will happen. We spend far too much time sowing bad seeds, take a step back and think about the decisions you are making.

"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live." Deuteronomy 30:19

When we make choices they affect not just us, but people around us too, and also generations that come after us.

Jesus died for us to have a good life, but that's not a certainty. The promises of the Bible will not fall on us just because we wish them to. They befall us because we choose them to. If you want to do well you need to do what God tells you to do. We all hear that so often, but so few people actually put it into practice and that's why they fall short in their lives.

"For just as through the disobedience of the one man they many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous." Romans 5:19

If we serve God for a long time there is a good chance that someone has come to Christ because of your witness. Maybe a change they have see in you or your lifestyle has intrigued them or you have invited them to church and given them an opportunity to know Christ. If we hadn't made that good choice to know God then that person would not have had that opportunity.

God never tells you to do anything if it is not for your benefit. God may tell you to forgive someone who has wronged you. This is for your benefit, so that you feel better and stronger about yourself and if you choose to disobey God then you won't feel the presence of God in your life of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. It will also be difficult to have your prayers answered, as it says in the Bible, if you won't forgive others then you will not be forgiven.

Regret is an awful feeling, we grieve over and are disappointed about something wrong that we have done. We may have said something to someone then immediately want to take it back, but we can't, the moment has passed and we have made a bad choice. Some people choose to live with regret even though they don't have to.

Make the decision to grow up, wise up and make decisions now that you will be happy with later on in your life. Don't live like there is no tomorrow, because tomorrow, along with the consequences of today, always comes!

"Seek wisdom of God above all, above all things and we will make right decisions and not live with regret." Proverbs 8:11