Self control

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

No person should allow another person to control his/her life. Circumstance can not take charge of your life. ‘Things’ happen. ‘Life’ happens. Bad things happen to good people.

It’s not about what happens to you – it’s about the way you respond to the things that happen to you.

Pro 25:28 A person without self-control is like a house with its doors and windows knocked out.

Have you ever seen an abandoned house – after vandals and hooligans got hold of it?

The Bible compares a person without self control to just that.

In order to avoid my house being vandalized and damaged, I have to protect it, I have to place guards around it if need be, in order to avoid permanent damage.

Pro 4:23 Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.

I can not leave my heart unprotected. I need to be so careful who I allow into my heart. Some will come in and take good care, but others will come in and create a mess, and when they leave they do not care about the damage they leave behind. Guess who needs to clean up and pick up the pieces.

Self-control helps me to protect that which is important to me.

Rom 12:1 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life, your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 2 don’t become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed
maturity in you.

Self control comes with a sense of accountability.

 I am responsible for my actions.

 I determine the actions I am willing to take.

 I control the thoughts I entertain.

 I decide the path of life I want to travel on.

 God has the best plan for my life, but I decide to follow that plan or not to follow it.