no need for regret

"I regret going to Colorado" "I should never have taken my vacation in September" Poor choices, bad decisions, mistakes....we all make them, sometimes we are beaten up a lot by our own conscience by family, even friends....but the sorrow of regret is not the same as the sorrow that can heal our hurt and restore our relationships Mrs Job for example was trying to make her husband regret the times he spent going to church...."curse God and die" was the advice she gave her husband. Mr Adams was trying to make his wife regret that she didn't follow his instruction so he told his BOSS it is the womans fault. The Davidson kid flat out blamed his dad...his regret: that 'you are my parents' and maybe he was right...the parents made many poor choices, mistakes etc.... outright sins ...committing adultery is definately not the prescribed way to build a family. ...but this is what this kid found himself in...a profoundly disfunctional family. Much of the book of Psalms in the bible describes some of the emotion in the disfunctional family of David (the Davidsons).....and yet we have some of the most delightful and encouraging words in the Psalms. So the way of regret and recrimination only leads to depression and dispair.....been there done that !!! but when I first read this: 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. 12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. 13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. The Clearing of yourselves jumped out at me. I'm not sorry I'm not sorry I've answered the Master's call Jesus took my heavy load Now I'm on the glory road I'm not sorry I'm not sorry I'm not sorry at all !!!