The Lenten season is supposed to be about self-examination and repentance. How is that working out for you? If that is ALL, then you must be desolate and left only with regret.
Regret is terrible. By its very nature regret understands that what is done cannot be undone. All the sorrow in the world will not change what is done and we bring our regrets with us to the grave. Or we would if not for Christ.
Christ undoes the evil that has been done in this world because of the sin of man. In redeeming us from our sins He not only paid the price of our wrongs, but He undoes them, culminating in the resurrection. This is what the world is waiting for whether it knows it or not: “For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but … we groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ” (Romans 8:22.23 NKJV)
The sorrow and regret of repentance is answered with forgiveness and life, but the ungodly sorrow of despair ends in death.
Remember where our Lenten observance ends – not at Golgotha, not at the burial, but at the empty tomb and the resurrection of Christ. You are forgiven by what He has done. Believe it. In the resurrection all regrets will be undone.
— Pastor Bryant