Time To Heal: Give Your Soul A Break & Live Without Regrets
“Now I'm glad—not that you were upset, but that you were jarred into turning things around. You let the distress bring you to God, not drive you from him. The result was all gain, no loss. Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets (2 Corinthians 7:9-10 MSG).”
We don’t have to live a life controlled by regrets. In a sense, regrets are a helpful emotion to prevent us from repeating the same mistakes in the future. However, we are not to stay wallowing, lamenting and replaying our mistakes over and over again for days, months or years. This type of behavior will produce guilt and shame. At some point, we have to keep it moving and keep going: “I can’t die here. I can’t stop here. This is not my permanent station in life. Let’s go!” Once we make this decision, then the healing process can begin and we can get back on track to doing great things.
The good thing about regrets if we don’t waste the experience is that it teaches us to have more love and compassion towards others. We have a greater capacity to accept others unconditionally. We realize that we are not our mistakes nor are others. Our mistakes never make us less of a person—we are still whom God says we are, God still loves us and we are still His handiwork created for good works (Ephesians 2:10).
Above all, our Heavenly Father has forgiven us for every sin—past, present and future. In His eyes, we are perfect and righteous (have right-standing with God) even if in the natural, we don’t dot every “I” and cross every “T.” This whole idea is liberating and brings freedom because we don’t have to work to maintain our Christianity. However, we don’t want to live in state of unrepentant sin. Repentance means to change your mind about something and go in a different direction. It doesn’t mean beating yourself up forever over a wrong committed. Simply, change your thought and direction about a thing. Nevertheless, God’s forgiveness of our sins cannot prevent us from facing the consequences of our sins. UNTIL NEXT TIME, GOD LOVES YOU AND HE HAS YOUR VERY BEST INTERESTS AT HEART. I LOVE YOU TOO VERY MUCH.
We don’t have to live a life controlled by regrets. In a sense, regrets are a helpful emotion to prevent us from repeating the same mistakes in the future. However, we are not to stay wallowing, lamenting and replaying our mistakes over and over again for days, months or years. This type of behavior will produce guilt and shame. At some point, we have to keep it moving and keep going: “I can’t die here. I can’t stop here. This is not my permanent station in life. Let’s go!” Once we make this decision, then the healing process can begin and we can get back on track to doing great things.
The good thing about regrets if we don’t waste the experience is that it teaches us to have more love and compassion towards others. We have a greater capacity to accept others unconditionally. We realize that we are not our mistakes nor are others. Our mistakes never make us less of a person—we are still whom God says we are, God still loves us and we are still His handiwork created for good works (Ephesians 2:10).
Above all, our Heavenly Father has forgiven us for every sin—past, present and future. In His eyes, we are perfect and righteous (have right-standing with God) even if in the natural, we don’t dot every “I” and cross every “T.” This whole idea is liberating and brings freedom because we don’t have to work to maintain our Christianity. However, we don’t want to live in state of unrepentant sin. Repentance means to change your mind about something and go in a different direction. It doesn’t mean beating yourself up forever over a wrong committed. Simply, change your thought and direction about a thing. Nevertheless, God’s forgiveness of our sins cannot prevent us from facing the consequences of our sins. UNTIL NEXT TIME, GOD LOVES YOU AND HE HAS YOUR VERY BEST INTERESTS AT HEART. I LOVE YOU TOO VERY MUCH.
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General Note To The Audience Base & Twitter Account Announcement
I am dedicated to making sure my blogs have a purpose behind them and a part of it is to write with total honesty to get you moving forward in a greater way in life, dream bigger, help you take precautions, and not let dream killers impede your progress. Thus, I take blogging to my audience very seriously. Before each blog, I pray and regularly pray for the restoration of the readers in every form. I value you guys even those who are different religious backgrounds reading the blogs. At the end of the day, I will rub off on you in a good way and cause you to make positive changes gradually. I have a twitter account and if you want, you can follow me at http://twitter.com/NiceLadyThought for daily tweets of positivity.Posted 07-09-2012 at 12:09 AM by Nice Lady 
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Always do your best in whatever stage you are in life. Set high goals for yourself and also, spiritual goals. Furthermore, we must forgive, love others, pray for those who despitefully use us, bless those that curse us, press forward into the things God has stored up for you and make a difference in your realm. We have great things ahead and we are blessed! Know Your Worth! Celebrate Your Life! #LET'S MAKE HISTORY!
Posted 07-09-2012 at 12:10 AM by Nice Lady
