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"Because you see...You don't walk in the light, and wish you hadn't."~Tom Hamilton


Taken from a message titled,"Can You Believe?" 11-20-2011

I found this statement to linger in my mind and provoke thought. He was speaking of situations and testimonies of people walking by faith and obeying the 'light' we were given, back in the earlier days of our walk in Christ. Brothers quiting jobs that conflicted with being a follower of Jesus, and now looking back seeing how The Lord has rewarded their obedience. A brother who sold his mortgaged home to obey the biblical principle of not owing and borrowing(though in the natural it looked foolish<he had a house payment of $200 and after selling the house he had to pay rent of $400> but The Lord blessed him and now he has a payed for home without going into debt to get it.)

The point was, if you/me/we were acting out our faith by choices you/we made, then if it was The Lord(light/understanding/revelation) then there are no regrets; and if you are looking back and wishing you hadn't taken certain actions, that would be an indicator that it wasn't The Lord to begin with...or you weren't in faith and was doing it out of peer pressure or the flesh. What God initiates in our lives for us to do/follow/obey, works for our good and we aren't left regretting the decisions. <my summation>


“But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,”
 
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