Sometimes the things that we regret happen really fast - a sinful decision made in the flash of a moment. But other times, like David, it is a series of poor decisions that lead to much larger issues as they build upon one another. And often the things we regret happen because we ignore the signs that we should have known.
It can be hard to shake our regret. But as Christians, we are offered in Christ, the ability to set aside our regrets, turn away from sin, and start anew. Think of Zacheasus’s story in the Gospel of Luke. He was not making good decisions. He was deeply hurting the people in his community, who quite frankly saw him as a traitor. But Jesus stopped and told him that he was coming to his house that day.
The real question about regret is it something we are going to avoid, or are we going to hand it over to God and be asked to be made a new - in the words of the Psalmist to be washed clean. There is no sin so large that it cannot be covered by the grace and blood of Jesus on the cross.
When we become stuck, we also find that sin steals our potential and purpose. We think that God could never use someone like us, with all of our brokenness for the sake of the Kingdom. We think that our sin is bigger than God’s love and redemption. And that brothers and sisters leads to the lie that we can never share our faith with others because we are not worthy, when it could be exactly your story of how Jesus changed you that could draw someone into a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
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