Choose Your Pain

You can choose the pain of discipline every day
Or you can choose the pain of regret to live through some day
It's such a small price to pay each day to be His disciple
It's better than the great price of being regretful!

Regrets...

Why did I do that? what was I thinking?
Why did I dwell on this thing and that thing?
Thoughts I dwelt on just multiplied in my head
Now I've gone and done something I really regret

If only... I would have done this
If only... I would have done that
    If only... I should have done this
    If only... I should have done that
I'm living in the painful Day of Regret
I'm living each moment in great torment

    Was it worth it? Was it worth the heavy price?
    Why did I not heed the warnings? or take the advice?
        Stupid thoughts led to shifting priorities 
        Stupid acts led to shifting loyalties 

Why did I do that? what was I thinking?
Why did I dwell on this thing and that thing?
Thoughts I dwelt on and multiplied inside my head
Now I've gone and done something I really regret

If only...I would have done this
If only...I would have done that
        If only...I should have done this
        If only...I should have done that
I'm living in the painful Day of Regret
I'm living each moment in great torment

discipline or regret?
        Choose your pain
choose now while there's time left
        Choose your pain
One day every knee will now
        Choose your pain
choose to follow Him now
        Choose your pain

You've heard it said that a man is what he eats
But The Bible says as a man thinketh [continues to think] 
            in his heart so is he
Just remember You are what you think!

Next time it crosses your mind... should I....? 

Wait....just wait ... wait on the Lord...
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus...

Think again.

Then...

No regrets...

"In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul."
                                Psalm 94:19

--bro. tim pickl      
Friday May 27, 2005 A.D.

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Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: