Hosanna Restoration Church

It is always interesting to me to hear someone say that they have no regrets concerning their life. I figure they either must have a gift for forgetting, or they have in fact lived a perfect life. As for me, the things I regretted use to drive me crazy. Different things that I had done or said or failed to do or say would haunt me. Not all the time but often enough that I just could not get rid of them.

I have a long list of favorite things that Christ has done for me, and one that I treasure is that He has enabled me to leave regrets behind. Not only does he enable us to leave them behind, but at the same time He turns them into opportunities to praise God and bring glory to Him. There have been so many times when I was able to relate to someone else that I truly did understand where they were coming from when they thought they could not be forgiven. I could also assure them that not only could they be forgiven but they could also be free from the shame. He alone can render the regrettable forgettable!

A really interesting thing happened to me once when a person asked me if I had any regrets concerning what I left behind when I came to Jesus. That was really amazing. I was able to assure them with many examples that I certainly had left nothing that was anything compared to the Love of God.

All in all, I believe it is true that very few people have lived a regret free life. Isn’t it great to know that we do not have to allow them to ruin our lives? In the very beginning of my walk with God, I asked Him to never allow me to go back to where I was before. It occurs to me now as I consider this scripture that I never wanted Him to regret saving me. Something about the fact that God regretted making Saul king stirred me up.

I wonder if it was Saul’s disobedience, his lies, his blaming others, or his failure to take responsibility for his actions that bothered God most. Saul really did have great potential, but over all, he was a train wreck. He made ridiculous vows and required burdensome things of his troops and his own son. He was more concerned about looking good in front of the people than he was about how he looked before God. I don’t think he worried about what the people wanted; he just used them in the blame game. No doubt it was a combination of the above along with others things that only God knew, but the bottom line was that God regretted choosing Him. I never want God to regret choosing me.

One way to assure that is to pray and ask God to search me and know my heart and reveal any wickedness before it can gain control, and then ask the Lord, to lead me in the way everlasting. Now that is something I will never regret.