See What You’re Missing | Part 4: What To Do With What I Did

REMEMBERING OUR REGRETS ISN’T OUR PROBLEM —

HOW WE HANDLE — WHAT WE REMEMBER — CAN BE

HOW DO WE — RIGHTLY HANDLE OUR REGRETS?

TWO EXPERIENCES WE ALL NEED HELP WITH —
WHAT WAS DONE TO US —
WHAT WE’VE DONE TO OTHERS

Genesis 42:21 (NLT)

“Clearly, we are being punished because of what we did to Joseph long ago. We saw his anguish when he pleaded for his life, but we wouldn’t listen.”

TO LIVE BEYOND REGRET I MUST FIRST —

— WHAT I DID

WE CAN’T OVERCOME — WHAT WE’RE NOT WILLING TO OWN

OWNING SPECIFICS:

• Confessing — acknowledging not informing!
• Apologizing — when and where we can!
• Making restitution — wherever and however we can!

TO LIVE BEYOND REGRET I MUST —

— THE LENS OF REGRET

Genesis 42:28 (NLT)

Their hearts sank. Trembling, they said to each other, “What has God done to us?”

Genesis 45:3 (NLT)

“I am Joseph!” he said to his brothers. “Is my father still alive?” But his brothers were speechless! They were stunned to realize that Joseph was standing there in front of them.

Genesis 45:5 (NLT)

“Don’t be upset, and don’t be angry with yourselves for selling me to this place. It was God who sent me here ahead of you to preserve your lives.”

Genesis 45:7 (NIV)

“BUT GOD sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”

THE REGRET LENS SAYS — LOOK WHAT WE DID

THE GRACE LENS SAYS — LOOK WHAT GOD CAN STILL DO

Romans 5:20 (MSG)

When it’s sin versus grace, grace wins hands down.

What I did will always be — a part of my story —
but not the defining part — my story is —

Defined by God’s Grace!

TO LIVE BEYOND REGRET I MUST —

— WHAT GOD CAN STILL DO

OUR PAST REGRETS DON’T VOID —

GOD’S FUTURE PURPOSES FOR US

Genesis 44:33 (NLT)

“Please, my lord, let me stay here as a servant instead of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.”

Genesis 50:15 (NLT)

“Now Joseph will show his anger and pay us back for all the wrong we did to him.”

GRACE IS GOD’S OVERCOMING GIFT —

FOR OUR OVERWHELMING REGRETS

BRING EVERY RESURFACING REGRET — BACK TO GRACE

OUR FEELINGS MAY CHANGE — GOD’S GRACE DOESN’T

GOD — HELP ME SEE MY REGRETS — THROUGH YOUR GRACE —

AND MY FUTURE — THROUGH YOUR PURPOSE