Self-control, a novel idea

We've heard and seen a lot of tragic stories lately. If you turn on the news for just a brief moment, you will find where someone decided to take someone else's life, or someone did something heinous to someone else, or that someone was plotting to do something heinous to someone else. It can be very disheartening and discouraging.

I am sure that I am not the only one that has sat there and thought, "What is wrong with people?" I have shared before that when someone asks me, "What is this world coming to?" my reply is "An end." People want to make excuses and try to make things make sense but, often, they just don't.

Today's word is Proverbs 16:32, NLT, which reads "Better to patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city."

Self-control. What a difference it would make if everyone tried to practice some. I am not pointing fingers; I have my own numerous shortcomings. But, there is absolutely no doubt that this world would change and it would be a dramatically better place if everyone would practice some self-control.

Self-control is simply controlling our emotions and and desires. We should find a way to not act on every impulse, to not follow through with everything that satan plants in our minds. Again, this is definitely something that I need to work on as well. I think the best way to maintain self-control is to concentrate more on JESUS and His desires instead of concentrating on self and our desires. Yeah, self-control, a novel idea.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T