It was not a momentary lapse.
“For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.”
– Hebrews 12:17 NKJV
[Nehemiah 6:3] I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
Then try it again! “…bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” – 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV
You could easily hold a grudge… “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive.” – Psalm 86:5 NKJV
Not just a good idea… “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.” – Romans 15:1
[Joel 2:13] Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God.
[Jeremiah 35:18,19] And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, … Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, … therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.