Missed opportunities!
If only . . .
It is good to regret missed
opportunities, but quite wrong to be miserable about them. You cannot look back
across your past life without seeing things to regret. That is as it should be.
But we have to draw a subtle distinction between a legitimate regret and a
wrong condition of heart. Give God your “if only’s.”
Think of those laborers in the
vineyard in the parable which Jesus told in Matthew 20:1-16. They all received
the same wages, although some had worked the whole day and some had worked for only
an hour. Compare that to a person’s life. Some people enter the Kingdom right
at the end of their lives.
They may regret all those years
when they
were not serving Christ. But the
important thing
is that they are in the Kingdom.
The thing that mat-
ters first of all, if you are a
Christian, is not what
you once were but what you are
now.
I will
restore to you the years which the swarming locust has eaten.
Joel
2:25
Lord Jesus, I give my "if
only's" to You. Make
me a faithful laborer here and
now.
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