Where is Your Self-Control?

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But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22-23 

I’m part Irish and have battled with a hot temper all my life. The Holy Spirit has really helped me get my temper and tongue under control—under God’s control—in the past forty some years! Thinking clearly, and reacting intentionally in a way that gives God glory is at the center of my self-control victories. I praise Him for that!

Red sky in the morning...sailor take warning.
Red sky in the night...sailor's delight.
Peter was a fisherman who knew the sky's warning.
Are you self-controlled enough to heed the warning?

Peter was a bold and head-strong fisherman who became one of Jesus’ most valued disciples, yet early in his discipleship his self-control was not evident. Hot tempered, yes. His relationship with Jesus changed his life and he clearly gives us direction and advice that encourages self-control.

So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. 1 Peter 1:13

By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world's corruption caused by human desires. In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God's promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins. 2 Peter 1:3-9.

Look at your own life since you have come to know more about Christ. Have you yielded your self-control to the Lord…or are you still demanding your own way about almost everything? Peter wrote about qualities that act as building blocks: moral excellent, knowledge, self-control, patient endurance, godliness, brotherly affection and love. Such good advice that the more these qualities are incorporated into our lives, the more useful our knowledge of Jesus Christ will be. As that knowledge becomes part of us…the more like Jesus we become. 

How are you doing memorizing this scripture passage?

But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives:

love,

joy,

peace,

patience,

kindness,

goodness,

faithfulness,

gentleness,

and self-control.

There is no law against these things! 

Galatians 5:22-23 

Prayer ~ Lord…may we live a life filled with love, following Your example. You loved us and offered Yourself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. Ephesians 5:2. Please give us more wisdom, insight, understanding and knowledge of You…and may we be more like You every day—self-controlled.

Daily Bible Reading: Obadiah; Psalms 82-83

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