No Regrets
No Regrets
(#336 from Suffer Well Devotional Series©)
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Every thought says something, and there is only One who determines what each thought means. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25) We pray you have learned well from this body of work and that you continue to do so. The core of our time together has been to arouse you to aspire to the mind of the Messiah (1 Corinthians 2:16). Our hope is that pressing on to the goal to win that prize (Philippians 3:14) would become to you as oxygen. You first learn that you must, and then how you are able, to take each thought captive unto the obedience of the Messiah (2 Corinthians 10:5). It must become as natural to you as breathing. This journey is encapsulated well in Romans 12:2; “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind!”
With this, we move forward, and we do so with no regrets. Truly, no regrets; instead, we harvest the living fruit of what we have learned together. No more wishful reminiscing, “If I could just go back and change the past,” or “If I had it to do all over again.” These toxic thoughts just feed bad fertilizer to already fatally flawed, preconditioned mindsets. No good fruit will come of it! Regrets discount Yahweh’s Sovereignty! They say that the mistakes were not intended for good, yet He says all things work together for good… (Romans 8:28). These misgivings reveal a mind that has yet to evolve to its spiritual destiny. They display a mind that has yet to recognize and accept this eternal truth; “If I had not been through that, I could have never known what I know now.”
Do not resist the truth; Yahweh spins the universe on this reality. He has specifically designed it so that the mistakes, the willful sins, and the ignorance, all of it is His plan; and all of it is perfect. You see, while all of mankind was but dust, He declared the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that were not yet done, saying, “My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure.” (Isaiah 46:10) Yes, the Almighty saw everything that He had made, and declared that indeed it was very good (Genesis 1:31), even knowing that sin was coming (Genesis 3:6-7). All things would work for good because He declared the end of from the beginning, and in the end, the mind of the Messiah is in you.
It has always been so, but perhaps right now in this moment, you can better embrace a simple yet profound truth. You are right where you are supposed to be loved one. From Yahweh’s perspective, the only perspective that matters, there are no “coincidences”; there is no “luck”; there are no “mistakes”. Everything was approved before you ever existed, and He declared the end from the beginning and He said; “It is all very good.” No regrets loved one. No regrets.