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We Have This One Thing In Common With God

6/19/2019

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​Gen. 6:6 - The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.  NASU
 
1 Sam. 15:11 - "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands."  NASU 
  • Regret 
The one thing we have in common with God is "regret". In Genesis the Hebrew word for "regret" has been translated "sorry".
 
God had regretted making Saul the King of Israel and in Genesis God regretted or was sorry He had made man.
 
Most people that I know all have some regrets of the things they have or have not done. 
  • What You Can't Allow 
The regret you have for whatever reason cannot be permitted to hinder your future progress. Okay, so you did something wrong or you didn't do something right. You can't allow it to freeze you from moving forward. If you are not making new plans you will find yourself frozen and second guessing every one of your future decisions.
 
I have spoken with quite a few college athletes and everyone I spoke with always told me they learned more about themselves from their losses than they ever did from their victories. 
  • Dan Gable's One Loss 
I was walking beside Dan Gable at one of the NCAA Championship Wrestling tournaments and I asked him about his loss to Larry Owens. For those of you, my readers, who have no idea who Dan Gable is or was, he went through high school and college undefeated until his last match. He was 181 - 0 and in his final collegiate match he was upset by a wrestler named Larry Owens.
 
Now this might surprise some of you but this is what he told me, "It was the best thing to happen to me."
 
What a loss was the best thing that happened to him. Yes, that is exactly what he told me.
 
He said after that loss it helped him like nothing else to refocus on his training, conditioning, technique, everything.
 
Dan took that one loss and allowed it to motivate him to become an even better wrestler. In fact, he became so good in the 1972 Olympics he won the Gold medal and never had a point scored against him. 
  • Flip Side Of That Coin 
Dan could have become so consumed by regret over that one loss that he lost his focus and the history books would have been written differently.
 
Don't let regret stop you from accomplishing great things.
 
Everyone has regret including God.
 
So if you have some regrets you are in good company. Allow those regrets to work for you not against you.
 
It is all up to you.
 
The decision is yours make the correct one.
 
Think About This:
 
No One Who Ever Gave His Best Regretted It. - George Halas

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago
 
Minister of God's Word
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