🧭 Where I Am, There Is No Regret

When the mess is wiped away, there's no need to keep looking back—just enjoy the cleared surface and move forward.

📚 Devotional Credit: His Victorious Indwelling by Nick Harrison with contributions from Jessie Penn-Lewis and Andrew Murray
📸 Photo Credit: Unsplash

Jessie Penn-Lewis reminds us that communion with God is maintained moment by moment—not through hypervigilant introspection or anxious correction of past failures, but through present, conscious dependence on Christ. We break fellowship when our minds are split between regrets of yesterday and uncertainties about tomorrow. The enemy knows this and lures us with both—replaying old wounds and provoking fears that haven’t even come to pass.

True communion is not self-managed perfection; it is consulting the Lord in all things and yielding to His voice when He brings something to light. If we’re shown a wrong toward another, we humbly go and make it right—not out of guilt, but because we cherish unbroken fellowship. And if no clear direction is given, we release it, trusting Him to gather and redeem the messy threads of both our past and our future.

Andrew Murray beautifully affirms that our sinful past no longer exists in the eyes of the Father. Christ’s past is now ours. His record is ours. His peace is ours. When we stop trying to rewrite our own story and instead rest in His, regret loses its grip, and communion is restored—not because we got it all right, but because we’re united with the One who did.

📓 Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture

Beloved, you are not called to relive what I have already redeemed. You may hear whispers urging you to look back or predictions warning you about what lies ahead—but I am here in the present, where My grace is sufficient and My fellowship is unbroken.

When your conscience stirs, bring it to Me. I do not accuse—I counsel. If you’ve wronged another, I will show you clearly and gently. Walk with Me in humility and sincerity. But do not scour your memories hoping to earn peace through apology. Your peace is anchored in Me.

You are in Christ. His past is your past. I do not see you in Adam anymore. I see you hidden in My Son, clothed in His righteousness. Your duty is simple: remain in Me and do the next thing with your whole heart as unto the Lord. I will redeem what lies behind and straighten what lies ahead.

Scripture References: Acts 24:16; Colossians 3:23; James 5:16; Isaiah 58:8; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:1; Galatians 2:20; Romans 6:4–11; John 15:4–5; Philippians 3:13–14

🧃 Real-Life Analogy

It’s like spilling a glass of juice across the kitchen floor. You instinctively reach for a towel and begin to clean it, but halfway through, you keep replaying how you tipped the glass—and before long, you’re too distracted to notice you’re walking in sticky puddles.

Christ doesn’t hand you a towel and then lecture you about your clumsiness. He steps in, wipes it up with you, and says, “Let’s move forward together.” So today, if the Holy Spirit brings something to mind—a word you need to retract, a call you need to make—respond. But if not, don’t go searching for trouble. Instead, in that next task or conversation, simply pause and say, “Lord, I trust You to think, move, and speak through me right now,” and walk with the joy of one whose past is already clean.

🙏 Prayer of Confidence

Father, thank You that my past—no matter how tangled—is not mine to manage anymore. In Christ, You’ve erased what once stood against me and given me a new identity, free from accusation. I trust You with the people I’ve hurt and the decisions I regret, knowing that You redeem what I cannot redo. I rejoice that communion with You isn’t dependent on my perfection but on Christ’s indwelling life. Today, I walk freely, moment by moment, with eyes on You and heart at rest.