Psalms 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our
transgressions from us.
This verse is farther than we are able to imagine, and reaches into infinity. He has put them entirely away.
This wonderful promise can be corroded by the devastating thought patterns of regret. Regret can be subtle. Regret brings unsettling thoughts of past failures or missed opportunities. When we wonder what could have been, we are playing a devastating mind game. We should have..or could have... or if we just would have...The what ifs? If I just would have done it a different way. I could have done better. I wish I would not have done something.
These regrets direct our thoughts and lives backwards instead of forwards. Downwards instead of upwards. This type of thinking opens a wide door to consume our present and eventually our future.
Some of the greatest men of God could have easily mourned their past, and labored under regret. Moses was first an exiled stutterer. Peter, the rock, was first a spineless self-preservationist. The Apostle Paul was first a rebel. These men and accounts of many more could have allowed their future to be swallowed up by their past. But not one of them lived with the obsession of regret. Regrets are dangerously paralyzing, and hold us prisoners to our past failures.
Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
The Apostle Paul left us with his goal.
Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do; forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
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