864 Live With No Regret

Are you playing it safe? Eliminating the risk so failure isn’t a threat? What have you sacrificed for this safe life where you’re just trying to keep everything the same? Understand this, safe is just another word for regret. God is calling you into a life of full surrender, of bold decisions and BIG living. This is what you were created for. You were never created for safe. A life played safe is a life half-lived. A life played safe will be filled with regret in the end. A study was done on those nearing the end of their life and you know what they regretted most? They regretted the things they didn’t do. They regretted all the times they played it safe, sat it out, let the moment pass without jumping in. They said no when a big ol’ hearty yes was available, and in the end they regretted it. Every day I meet you here with a new devotional to encourage, inspire and equip you to live up to your God-given potential, and at the core of it all is this one message … your life is passing you by, don’t regret it. Get in the middle of your life. Jump in this. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it. 2 Thessalonians 1:11 says “that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.” May you be worthy of his calling. He is calling you to live this big, beautiful life in the way only you can. May you be worthy of that calling. Here’s the thing, God thinks you are worthy. He knows you have the potential in you because he placed it in you. Now, it’s just up to you to live up to it, to step into it, to claim it as your own. Will you live today in a way that is worthy of what God has given you? Or, will you play it safe? If your passion has gone out in your life, recognize this … it’s likely because you’ve played it safe for so long. I’m glad Jesus didn’t play it safe. I’m glad he didn’t sit it out. Think about that. What has been done for you was anything but safe. And what’s being asked of you is to dive into the life he died to give you. This very day and the decisions you make today will one day flash before your eyes and you will see your entire life from a perspective of all that could have been. DON’T REGRET TODAY. Don’t miss a single opportunity. When life asks if you’ll play, say yes. In the final days of my Daddy’s life, I asked him to look back on his 67 years of living and tell me about any regrets he had. He thought long and hard and then said, “I stayed way too long at a dead end job, working myself silly making nothing.” Eventually my Daddy went on to start his own successful construction company and experienced decades of rewarding and fulfilling work. But in the end, he regretted the years before he took that leap to get started. He regretted playing it safe for a paycheck that was never enough anyway. He regretted being stuck and being miserable when in the end he realized more was always available. In that study with those nearing the end of their life, one of the top 5 regrets of the specific things they didn’t do, was they didn’t allow themselves to be happier. Let me ask, what strings have you tied to your happiness? Have you decided you can’t be truly happy on a work day? Is it written somewhere that you can’t be happy as long as you’re overweight? You’ve convinced yourself when you squeeze those thighs back into those size 8’s you’re gonna be happy, happy, happy. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. You won’t be. It won’t be good enough. You’ll still see the flaws and the imperfections and you will have already decided something else will be the source of your happiness. Can you be happy when the big vacation has come and...