Self-Control is Good for Us & Helps Us (TMF:1030)

Friday, December 28, 2018
Peace to Live By: Self-Control is Good for Us & Helps Us (TMF:1030) - Daniel Litton
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       The final Fruit of the Spirit is self-control. As Christians, we have to live within limits in order to have a good walk with God, and to live good, successful lives. If we don’t follow God’s Word in our actions, we are going to reap negative consequences. Indeed, God’s Word is central to our behaviors. We can either learn the easy way or the hard way when it comes to self-control. When we don’t exercise self-control in a certain area of our lives, sometimes we find ourselves in trouble and we learn what we should have been doing, the way we should have been acting, in a negative, hard way. Sometimes God has to allow trouble to enter our lives because we won’t listen to his easy, simple nudges. When we have closed our hearts to hearing him in a certain area, often he has no choice but to permit difficulty to come. This is the only way he can get us to grow into becoming more like Jesus.