Fruitages of Self Control
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.
Thus, we must self-analyze to discover any partiality we may house in our mind. You can maneuver and control these thinking patterns by using logic and reason. Logic and reason will move you to open your mind to truths.
To develop love, one must hate what is bad. The scriptures in Proverbs 8; 13 clearly tells us to hate what is bad. Not one scripture in the bible tells us to hate a person, but to love our enemy. Loving your enemy does not mean that you have to affiliate with them, rather that you recognize that these people are blinded by darkness and cannot see what they do to others.
Badness comes in many forms, which appear tempting, pleasurable, or enticing. By keeping alert, you will know badness when it presents self. Observing and acknowledging what is bad will assist you with making sound decisions, which ultimately provides you self-control.
We encourage you to learn more of the fruitages of love to develop your self-control. When you work toward love, thus the remaining fruits of self-control will become easier to accomplish. You will find joy, long-suffering, peace, faith, goodness, and kindness a rewarding task, rather than a punishment. Refer to your bible to learn more about the fruitages of self-control.
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