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I think most people who have lived long enough have regrets. For most of us, hopefully, they are about the small things, but for some they are not.
There is a sadness that settles on the soul that regrets. Grace can absolve and forgive, but in the deepest recesses of the heart, the person knows what they’ve done.
Like a body heals from an injury, but a scar remains, the soul remembers. It’s a scar that reminds a person of the grace that has been offered and received, but it also reminds a person of the ongoing need of grace.
A scarred soul needs “breathing room” to tell its story. We often miss the stories because we don’t give the time. We want what we want and we want it now. But this is not the land of drive-thru’s and microwaves. This is a place where a scarred soul can breathe it needs to heal.
Read Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Let those words sink in and remember the grace offered to us in that text. This is no cheap grace. Our sins are worthy of death and deserving of the wrath of an infinitely holy God. But this is a grace greater than all our sin.
God’s grace is able to save the worst, to pardon and cleanse even the worst person, and his grace can and will lovingly heal you.
Don’t hang onto your regrets, we all have them, let go of the scars that haunt you. Allow God to change your life and bath you in his loving and heavenly shower of grace and forgiveness.
If God can forgive you for no matter what you've done, ……..shouldn’t you be able to forgive yourself?
Tim Carlisle
