Author: Claus & Ingrid Dreyer
Knowing the fruitages of self-control can assist you with cultivating your power to take control of your life. Self-control is a derivative of the spirits of joy, love, long-suffering, peace, faith, goodness, and kindness. For these traits “no law,” can prevail, which means you have ultimate self-control.
In modern times, self-control must be established by developing self-discipline. By considering examples, one can note how self-control will assist you with maintaining a better life. Job for example, the bible character maintained his self-control despite his family members and friends encouraged him to do what was bad, yet he upheld self-control, prevailing, and each test he endured and ultimately reaped grand rewards.
One of the greatest ways to cultivate self-control is developing a healthy fear of God Himself. Thereafter you must work to cultivate the spirits of joy, love, peace, goodness, kindness, faith and long-suffering.
Let us try to build these characteristics today:
Joy – Joy is one of the fruitages of the spirit that brings one, happiness. To develop this source of pleasure however, one must cultivate love. Love is the ultimate trait you must develop to welcome self-control. However, since love has been tarnished, we must learn that true love is love, which is unconditional. This is not an agape love, as we know it today.
Defining Love:
Love is a feeling of affections for the fellowman or neighbor and self. We have the ability to love our enemy, yet hate their ways. Understanding that hating what is bad is essential for developing love, which moves you to self-control. Thus, we must self-analyze to determine if any hate is in our blood. If we have hate in our blood, thus one must move to eliminate and abandon these negative energies to develop love and self-control.
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