Living a Life of No Regrets

If you were to look back in your past, is there some event or someone that you strongly wish you had handled differently?

In the late 60’s (69) Frank Sinatra came out with an album called My Way. And that album contained a very seductive signature hit single with the same name: “My Way”; - The song `My Way`` spent a record 124 weeks on the singles chart.

On a whole the is a song with it’s catchy phrase Ì did it My Way`` glorifies self-will. It glorifies a defiant resistant to guidance; a stubborn persistence in going one’s own way

The Bible clearly teaches that we have the power of choice.
Every individual has the ability to choose their own words, to decide what their actions will be. For the most part, we all have a faculty of self-determination in the sense that we select our own thoughts, words, and deeds. Man is free to choose what he prefers, what he desires. We are all responsible for our own moral behaviour.

Mat 12:33 AMP
(33) Either make the tree sound (healthy and good), and its fruit sound (healthy and good), or make the tree rotten (diseased and bad), and its fruit rotten (diseased and bad); for the tree is known and recognized and judged by its fruit.

Matthew 12:33 clearly teaches that a sound tree will bear sound fruit. Let’s say it this way, a sound life will bring forth sound decisions; decisions that will keep you from living a life of regrets.

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Seek His Face

There is a set time limit for all of us to seek God. For some it extends to the last seconds of life. While for others, that time period is reached long before death. In Isaiah 55: 6 the prophet makes what I consider and call a "sleeper-profound-statement."

"Sleeper-profound-statements" can slip under the radar of our consciousness. We hear the statement but do not take the time, perhaps, to do the math: We miss the implication.

"Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near" (Is 55:6 - KJV)
That statement says to me," Don't pursue God at a laid back pace. Don't put off for tomorrow, what should be done today."

The amplified version of Ephesians 5:15-16 gives a nice "New Testament" flavour to the idea that we need to pick up the pace in our search for the hidden mysteries; the treasures that are hid in Christ. I won't reprint it here but paraphrase it this way:

"Check your lifestyle. Do everything with a purpose and goal in mind...Squeeze out as much time as possible to study the word and implement what you study in your life. Watch how much time you spend doing things that don't move you closer to your goals and God's purpose for you, because time is short. We know time is short because things are getting worse and worse."

I Lost My Hair

Can you believe it! We are a full five years into the 21st century. Who would have guessed that we would have come so far.

I hope this letter from us at Living Big in Christ finds you moving forward and not backwards. If you are moving forward, look up. If you are moving backwards, look up.
I remember one year, it was around December, when I made a flawed choice. About three weeks before that event, the Sunday minister in the church I attended preached on Samson and his choices. I didn’t pay attention. The message seemed so dry at the time.

That same week I lost my hair.

Have you lost your hair? Don’t worry it will grow back. I can feel mine growing back. By faith I can see yours growing back too.

One minister stated that, “many people give up when they slip backwards. They give up because of the hard work that it took to get to the level which they fell from. They give up on God because of the hard work it will take to step back to where they fell from.”
Don’t give up! Paul wrote in the book of Ephesians that God works to bring all things into conformity with His will. It is God’s will that we should be holy and without blame.

Let God do the work. He will restore your soul. God will restore you to a greater level of anointing. You just continue to make the right choices and let God bring about the change in your nature.

The flawed choice I told you about has brought me to the place where I can truly say that I hate sin and every evil work. May Christ strengthen you inwardly through the working of His Spirit so that you may attain unto the fullness of Christ Himself. Live big in Christ.