As a human being there are so many things to regret. Things that we don’t do, that we should have done, and things we do that we wish we had not done. When we live in the grips of addiction, our lives can feel so wretched as we lose more and more control to drives in our lives that take over our sense of how we should live, and any propriety that we think we may possess.
Saint Paul talks about these feelings in his letter to the Romans in Chapter 7. The dilemma is known to all of us.
The fact is we all fail in our attempts to be “good”. This is part of the human condition. If we cannot accept the “bad” parts of ourselves, we tend to beat ourselves up and live our lives in regret.
This cycle of regret is broken when we accept ourselves as God has accepted us. God loves us so much that he gave his only son to die for us. God did this even though he new in advance that we would blow it so many times. This is the grace that we live in, and it is wonderful gift to be able to live life, and not regret the falls along the way. We know that as long as we live in relationship to God through Christ that we are forgiven and can live outside of the laws that govern sin and death.”