
Emotions: Regret
Webster’s defines regret as “
Regret is sorrow or remorse over something in the past (over which we had little or no control), or something we
We see that regret can come as a sense of
Regrets come when we make decisions without
Regret causes people to
We also
Another way to deal with regrets is to simply put the blame and responsibility on
The opposite extreme is to
Years ago, Rick Warren wrote in the Charisma News: “We try to pay for our guilt unconsciously through illness, depression, setting ourselves up for failure, and other forms of self-punishment. But the problem with beating ourselves up is that our conscience never knows when to stop! Some people spend their entire
We must realize that the “absence of pain” is the greatest
Regret is a gift to our soul, just as pain is a gift to our flesh. However, regret is designed to serve only a
3 steps in dealing with regret:
a. We must be honest and recognize our regrets, and not discard or avoid them, nor try to distance ourselves from them. We must be real and
b. We need to release our regrets to God and ask Him to
c. We need toGood regret is a
God does not regret our past; neither does He wish we could go back to change it. He looks at our past, and sees how He can redeem it, and use it for a future
God always takes what we can’t change about our past and uses it to change us and others. However, we have to