How Should I Handle My Regrets?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Every single one of us can look over our lives and find failures we regret. How do we deal with remorse in light of God’s mercy?

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0:00.0	Well, how should we consider our life regrets?
0:07.6	The small regrets, the bigger regrets, the medium regrets.
0:10.6	We all have regrets of various sizes.
0:13.3	The question comes in from Marvin, a podcast listener, Hello, Pastor John, I'm a 72-year-old
0:17.7	man with four grown children.
0:19.4	My wife is with the Lord now.
0:21.5	All in all, my life has been good, and I think I served the Lord for a lot of those years,
0:25.3	but I can look back on many opportunities I missed in life.
0:28.7	Those trips I didn't take, missionaries I didn't support, even professional opportunities
0:33.3	I did not take and probably should have, waste, better invest and redeem my time at every
0:38.0	stage along the way, at my age I harbor a bunch of little regrets about my past.
0:43.0	All those small regrets add up and leave me wondering, is it possible for an older man
0:47.4	to look back over his life and conclude that I frequently missed God's will over the
0:51.5	years?
0:52.5	Or is who I am now the will of God perfectly manifested in all my decisions?
0:57.2	Therefore, I should have no regrets at all.
0:59.6	How should an old man in Christ who believes in the sovereign orchestration of God's
1:04.3	providence look back on his failures and his missed opportunities?
1:09.0	Well, as you can imagine, this strikes very close to home, he's what, 72-year-old, I'm
1:16.6	73.
1:18.0	I am that man, right?
1:20.2	Marvin and I are both in our early 70s.
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