After we have done certain things, we say to ourselves and even to others, "I should have known better." Oh my dear friend, this happens over and over again to us. We identify well with those who have gone before us who stated things like, "to him who knows to do good and does it not, to him it is sin" or "the things I do not want to do, I do, and the things I desire to do, I find myself not doing." This is where so much of life is lived for me. What about you?

Our choices must be courageous choices, even willing to be different from others. Regret can plague the best of us. I have seen it dominate from the least of us to the greatest among us. Again, so many times whether ever stated publicly, there is that internal feeling that nags at us, "Well, I should have known better." We experience this in pretty well every facet of life.

DO WHAT IS RIGHT should become the dominating agenda in our lives. The opinions of others will always challenge our identity, but we must rest in who we are enough to always DO WHAT IS RIGHT or stated in another way, DO THE RIGHT THING.

Life is more serious than a silly football pick I make. Yes, I should have known better to pick the Bears to lose to the Saints, but I did. In reality, who cares who I pick to win, right?

Life is more than about football picks and living in regret. Life is about doing what is right and doing the right things. Sometimes in life when we miss on this, we enter into some big time regret. Regret that can go with us to the grave without the daily work of Christ in us. Therefore, today, on January 23, 2007…

Do what is right.