Do you not regret a hurtful word you spoke to someone?
Do you not regret a lie or slander you spread about someone?
Do you not regret your complicity against an innocent person?
Do you not regret that sin you have been harboring in your heart all this time?
Do you not regret the times you were hypocritical just to please people?
Do you not regret a careless, harsh, cruel, or unjust act you committed against another human being?
If you do not regret, you are dangerous… and unhappy.
The Bible speaks of a heart that can become hardened:
“Having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.” (Ephesians 4:18).
And this is the real danger: not that you have made mistakes, but that you no longer recognize them. For as long as the heart can still feel, it can be restored. But when it feels nothing anymore, it becomes insensitive to God.
Yet God does not close the door to return. He does not ask the question of regret to crush you, but to awaken you:
“Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.” (Joel 2:12).
Regret, in the Bible, is not the end—it is the beginning. It is what is called repentance: a change of direction. Even the worst past can become a new beginning in the hands of God.
So the question remains open, but full of hope:
Do you regret just to remain in guilt… or to return to life?
For God is not looking for perfect people. He is looking for sincere hearts willing to return to Him. And that is where true transformation begins.
PRAYER:
Lord, give me a humble and sincere heart, ready to recognize my sin and return to You.
In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Apostle Jean-Claude SINDAYIGAYA
