Oh regret

Oh Regret

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The sin that was
weighs
heavy
my remorse and shame and guilt
not so loving
not so kind
downright awful
wrongs I’ve done

I have repented
yet I feel
the weight of
what I’ve done
what I’ve not
what I could have
those I hurt
those I could have helped
that helping hand I never gave
Jesus saves and He’s forgiven
I am His
abiding strong in Him
yet oh regret

I will not stay in this regret
I will not fret and languish
I choose to leave my past as past
as Paul says in Philippians
and as I stray as weak I am
repent
go forward
learn and grow from where I’ve been
pursue His ways more surely

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Reference

– Philippians 3:13-21 ^AMP

“…forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ All of us who are mature [pursuing spiritual perfection] should have this attitude. And if in any respect you have a different attitude, that too God will make clear to you.

¹⁶ Only let us stay true to what we have already attained.  ¹⁷ Brothers and sisters, together follow my example and observe those who live by the pattern we gave you.

¹⁸ For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears, who live as enemies of the cross of Christ [rejecting and opposing His way of salvation],

¹⁹ whose fate is destruction,

whose god is their belly [their worldly appetite, their sensuality, their vanity], and

whose glory is in their shame—who focus their mind on earthly and temporal things.

²⁰ But [we are different, because] our citizenship is in heaven. And from there we eagerly await [the coming of] the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

²¹ who, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself, will [not only] transform [but completely refashion] our earthly bodies so that they will be like His glorious resurrected body.” 

– Philippians 3:13-21 ^AMP

 

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FOR MORE:

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Living between two opinions – 1 Kings 18:21

Sinners versus Living in Sin

 

Getting born again

Sincerity and truth

That Joy Inexpressible

I’ve got that joy

What joy and exhilaration – soon

 

Repentance in the Bible

I am not the sum of all my sins

Turn shame into repentance

Jesus waited 1,952 years for me

Prayer of Repentance

 

Time as it really is

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