Friday... You won't regret it.

There are many things that we have tried or food we have eaten or friendships we have made that we looked with great anticipation but when we have tried, when we have eaten, when we have made them, we were greatly disappointed, and we maybe even have deep regrets. We thought it was going to be fun, we thought it would satisfy us, and we thought they were a good person but it wasn't fun, and it made us sick and they were not the kind of person we should hang around with and we had deep regrets.

Now the last phrase in Psalm 2:12 (MES) says, "But if you make a run for God - you won't regret it!" The Amplified Bible says, "How blessed [fortunate, prosperous and favored by God] are all those" not just a few but all those, "who take refuge in Him."

Maybe you have heard from someone that this God thing is so confining, it's no fun, you can't do what you want to do so you haven't tried it. Now when you find out that none of those are true and you finally give your life to Christ then you have regrets that you didn't do it sooner. You wasted all that time running after things you thought would make you happy instead of running after God. That's where the regret comes in when you finally realize that when you give your life to God, you are blessed, you are fortunate, you are prosperous and you are favored by God. And there are no regrets in that.

The NLT translates it this way, "But what joy for all who take refuge in him!" The regret is when you haven't taken refuge in Him and what joy you could have had if you did. So why don't you run to Him, why don't you take refuge in Him. Really, really let Him into your life. And that is where real joy is. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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