Reading: Proverbs 25
My Verse: "A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls" (Proverbs 25:28).
In my Bible study class we looked at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning . . . " This speaks of how God created that thing called "time." The study then went on to look at how God directs us in the use of this all important thing - "time." This verse just brought me back to that. It is all about self-control; how we use our time.
If we do not have self-control we are a bit at sea, rudderless. Lack of self-control manifests itself in so many ways. For some it is losing one's temper. For another it may be giving in to temptations to do things that are destructive to ourselves and loved ones. For another it may be as simple as always falling for the latest "thing" - whatever that may be. For another it may be simple laziness - "a little folding of the hands" (Proverbs 6:10). For some it is to be the fool - much like the jester of olden times.
You, LORD God, "gave us a spirit . . . of power and love and self-control" (2 Timothy 1:7).
So much is taught us in Your Word, LORD God, on our need of self-control!
"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control . . ." (2 Peter 1:5).
"Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable" (1 Corinthians 9:25-27).
"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (Proverbs 16:32).
"Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives . . ." (Titus 2:12).
It is all about giving up that which is so all important to us - self! As Calvin Miller stated, "All who follow Christ must sooner or later learn the hard lessons of dying to self."
I must include Emily Dickinson's poem here.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
. . . . . . .
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the
the livelong day
To an admiring bog!"
Help me, LORD God to not be so concerned with self. Help me to "number my days" (Psalm 90:12).
Help me to "walk carefully, not as unwise but wise" (Ephesians 5:15).
"Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Galatians 5:23).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
My Verse: "A man without self-control
is like a city broken into and left without walls" (Proverbs 25:28).
In my Bible study class we looked at Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning . . . " This speaks of how God created that thing called "time." The study then went on to look at how God directs us in the use of this all important thing - "time." This verse just brought me back to that. It is all about self-control; how we use our time.
If we do not have self-control we are a bit at sea, rudderless. Lack of self-control manifests itself in so many ways. For some it is losing one's temper. For another it may be giving in to temptations to do things that are destructive to ourselves and loved ones. For another it may be as simple as always falling for the latest "thing" - whatever that may be. For another it may be simple laziness - "a little folding of the hands" (Proverbs 6:10). For some it is to be the fool - much like the jester of olden times.
You, LORD God, "gave us a spirit . . . of power and love and self-control" (2 Timothy 1:7).
So much is taught us in Your Word, LORD God, on our need of self-control!
"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control . . ." (2 Peter 1:5).
"Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable" (1 Corinthians 9:25-27).
"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (Proverbs 16:32).
"Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives . . ." (Titus 2:12).
It is all about giving up that which is so all important to us - self! As Calvin Miller stated, "All who follow Christ must sooner or later learn the hard lessons of dying to self."
I must include Emily Dickinson's poem here.
"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
. . . . . . .
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the
the livelong day
To an admiring bog!"
Help me, LORD God to not be so concerned with self. Help me to "number my days" (Psalm 90:12).
Help me to "walk carefully, not as unwise but wise" (Ephesians 5:15).
"Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Galatians 5:23).
Ditat Deus - God Enriches!
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