Do you ever wake up and just lay in bed for awhile, running over and over in your mind the challenges that you’re going to face that day? You get more and more anxious as you keep playing them out in numerous different ways. Or maybe you’re thinking about the ones that you faced the day before. You keep beating yourself up over saying what you said or doing what you did. I don’t know about you, but I feel like I have my troubles and challenges set on repeat. It’s like I store these short clips of my life on a shelf for easy access so I can watch, re-watch, and rehash them again and again and analyze them from every possible angle.
Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we put ourselves through the agony, guilt, regret, and anxiety of reliving or anticipating these difficult times in our lives? I don’t think God wants this for our lives. We are only meant to live through these times once not over and over. Reliving them only multiplies our suffering. Instead, we need to learn what we can from them and then offer them to God to be used for His purposes. God can use the rough and seemingly terrible times in our lives for good. He wants us to lay our burdens before Him (Matt 11:28) and be freed from the thoughts that bring us down.
Here’s one of my favorite songs that reminds me what I need to do with my troubles!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=alSjOp4aj7M&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DalSjOp4aj7M
Faithpondering 
I totally live with guilt and regrets, the devil uses this to keep us down. God can turn anything around for his glory. Thank you Jesus.
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Tami, I think a lot of us deal with this and it is one of the evil one’s favorite tricks.
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