Opening Reflection Almost everyone knows what regret feels like. We replay conversations late at night, wishing we could pull the words back. We think about choices we wish we had never made, or secrets we desperately hope will never come to light. Regret is a universal human experience. It lies awake with us, replaying the past like a broken record. But there is a dangerous spiritual reality that many people never realize: Regret and repentance are not the same thing. You can spend years drowning in regret and never once experience genuine, life-altering biblical repentance. This distinction changes everything about how we deal with our past, our guilt, and our relationship with God.   Central Truth: The Inward Focus of Regret Regret and repentance may feel similar on the surface because both involve sorrow, but they are driven by profoundly different motives. Regret is fundamentally self-focused. It zeroes in on what our sin has cost us or how it has damaged our ea...

  Day 1 Devotional ( Understanding Faith ) Everybody talks about faith, even the atheist, if he would be honest with himself has to admit that he/she put their faith in someone and something.   The most common argument for this is “I don’t believe in God.” But before we address if it is even possible to not believe in God, let's address why they have nothing to do with one another. Faith is not believing in God, Faith is putting your trust in someone or something other than yourself . It can be a simple as a chair or as complicated as God the creator of the universe. Consider this when we sit on a chair we put on faith in that chair and the builder of that chair that the chair will hold us.   If we had no faith that the chair would support us, we would not sit in it. However, every day, we put our faith in chairs, and the breaks of our cars, and so many other things to support us and sustain our very lives. Follow me on Twitter ,    Follow me on Youtube...