Lately I’ve been realizing how little self control I have. with everything. It’s one of the fruits of the spirit, I take that as being pretty important to have…
As I was thinking about it I starting thinking about how you always hear the words “exercise self control” and “practice self control.” All this time I’ve just kept thinking that one day I was going to wake up and be able to just not eat junk, not snack and eat small meals. I thought one day I’d wake up and not have the desire to yell, or have that cup of coffee.
Truth is… it’s like exercise. if you’ve never ran you can’t go out and run a marathon. you have to practice. you have to train yourself. you have to start with 1/4th a mile. Each day add a little more distance and eventually after lots of hard work you’ll be able to finish the 26.2 miles.
Why do we think being like Christ is going to just happen without work? I point out things I do wrong and think just by acknowledging them they will change. Nope. being Christ like is hard and takes work.
So now I am watching myself. Each time I think about going back for seconds, I remind myself of self control. Each time I want to yell at my daughter for doing something wrong, I am trying to remind myself of practicing self control.
Each little step I take is one step closer to that marathon.
The great thing is that while teaching myself self control I have no choice but to learn the other fruits of the Spirit. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.”
