Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair and right now we're going through Exodus.

When's the last time you messed up? Made a huge mistake.

Can you remember the feeling you had of deep regret?

Of realizing that your mistakes, your sins, would now lead you into a new reality.

There would be consequences and you would have to live in light of those.

I remember when I was little, I threw a croquet mallet at my sister. I was mad, but the second that mallet left my hands,

I knew I had messed up. I knew I had hurt her badly, and I knew I would have to face her hurt her badly and I knew I would have to face her hurt and my mother's discipline and that new reality scared me.

We all make bad choices and those bad choices lead to a new reality we're left to grapple with. A choice to watch pornography leaves mistrust and dissatisfaction in your marriage.

A decision to say a biting comment to a friend leaves a wounded, uncomfortable, disconnected relationship. A flirtatious comment made to a

coworker opens up the door to a growing desire for an affair. A late night

decision to sleep with your boyfriend or girlfriend drives a wedge of regret and worry

between you.

There are so many poor choices I make in my life that I instantly regret.

Ones that have big and little consequences.

But every time I make those choices,

I feel the way of the new reality I live in. I made a choice that

took me outside of God's desire for my life and now no matter what horizontal interpersonal consequences I face I'm also

facing discord in my relationship with the Lord. If you haven't already go back and listen to Tanya's episode from yesterday.

She does an incredible job of helping a sift through the tension the Israelites would have felt

as they sat in the reality that they had rebelled against God.

They formed and worshipped a golden calf and now they had to face their new reality.

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