...make you what? happy? sad? stronger? depressed? thankful? learn? a prisoner? free?
..maybe it isn't all the decision that "makes you," but how you handle the aftermath, the consequences, the results...I'm assuming you've made a few "stupid (in someone's perspective)" decisions throughout your life just like I have. I'm sure if it's a strong or weak point of mine, but I always seem happy among trial. When I have made decisions that are threatening to my future, that are hurtful to others, that are considered bad decisions, I deal with the consequences alongside the Lord. Not as if I'm abusing his grace, but as if I am desperately seeking what I am meant to learn through my situation...why focus on the darkness around you, when there is light in front of you? it just seems silly..our choices have been made. Some of them, we wish we could take back, but how many times have you wished to win the lottery vs how many times you've won it? ..or how many times have you wished that you were Carrie Underwood and it happened? We can't take our choices back, so it can only be hurting us to dwell in them. We can, however, ask the Lord to bless them. To give us some compassion, to show us some path that we wouldn't have had or seen without experiences this mistake in this moment. I don't mean that the Lord is going to bless your decision to be unfaithful to your spouse. I mean that the Lord can bless the situation, can teach you, can open doors..seriously, he's like for real always waiting to just hand us this big bundle of mercy that we need but don't deserve.
God does not want us to live in guilt, Satan does. Yes, you have a conscience, so do I. That's how we know we did the wrong thing. That's how we know to look to God and say ..uh oh, I think I really messed up..and I need your help, Daddy.
I recently came to my earthly dad crying, and thanking him for the huge sacrifice he made to help fix the horrible mess I made, and ya know what he said?.. "That's what dads are for." Lets be real, if we could do this life alone, we wouldn't need Jesus. Stop feeling sorry for yourself if you are/believe you are a victim of someone else's mistakes..Stop beating yourself up if you feel like you made the worst decision that is ruining someone else's life. You are allowing Satan to grow death inside of you like a weed. I promise it's gonna choke you before long. Look to the Lord. There is a reason. There is a season. Kill the pity and regret. Open your heart, and ask the Lord for help so that life can move forward. You have what is now. Learn from your mistakes, and let God use them to glorify his name (however tainted that may sound.) This is the life HE gave you, and He doesn't want you to spend it beating yourself up, feeling guilty, depressed, or anxious. It's your choice. Pick up The Word, pray, listen, seek godly counsel. The Lord has a plan, and whatever mess you've been in is part of it.
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As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our sins from us. -Psalm 103:12
But on thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. -Philippians 3:14
"give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our traspasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." -Matthew 6:11-12
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. -1 John 1:9
I sought the LORD, and heard me and delivered me from all my fears. -Psalm 34:4
