Day 20 – 90 Days in Proverbs - Regrets, I’ve Had a Few
Proverbs 5:9-14 [CSB] 9 Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel; 10 strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner's house. 11 At the end of your life, you will lament when your physical body has been consumed, 12 and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction. 13 "I didn't obey my teachers or listen closely to my instructors. 14 "I am on the verge of complete ruin before the entire community."
These verses focus on the end results of choosing the wrong path – loss of vitality, drained resources, a broken body and a ruinous end.
We should live our lives so that we can look back on them without regret. That should be the goal. Maybe you’ve been successful so far. Me? I have a few regrets – things I chose to do; things I failed to do.
We have a High Priest who understands us and the struggle we face in trying to live a life free of regret. He walked among us on a very straight, narrow and difficult path that He and the Father chose.
Hebrews 4:15 [NKJV] 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.
You can rest assured that Jesus does not regret what He did for you. [See Phil. 2:5-11] And, for those who strive to follow in His footsteps, He is waiting for the opportunity to say to you “Well done, good and faithful servant” – as we see in Matthew 25:23.
We will not regret any of the hard decisions or difficult parts of our lives where we chose God over things like money or power or success or temptation. For those who strive to live without regret, we are told that we will end up with beautiful, perfect spiritual bodies, not wasted ones. [See 1 Corinthians 15:53-54] We will end up in glory, not in ruins. Whatever resources we use in God’s work and to His glory will be paid back many times over. Luke 19:17 [NKJV] "And he said to him, 'Well [done], good servant; because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities.'
We might regret the mistakes, missteps and sins of life – the missed opportunities act and the times we not have acted but did. But, I promise you sweet sisters, in the end, you will not regret choosing obedience and walking in the path of righteous.
Prayer — Father God, Thank you for the sacrifice of Jesus and His example in obedience. Thank you that the regretful acts of disobedience and sin that I have done are covered by His blood. Thank you that I can look forward to glory and eternal life and reward in the end, if I stick to the path of obedience to you, because of what He has done. I will never regret choosing You. Help me to choose You again today and every day. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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