As he admitted to a wrongdoing, the young man said, \u201cI just couldn\u2019t control myself.\u201d\u00a0 Self-control is a difficult thing.\u00a0 It has to do with discipline, and discipline is hard.\u00a0 We live in an out-of-control society and If you don\u2019t discipline yourself, someone else will control you. Thus the importance of self-control.\u00a0 It is similar to a muscle in that the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. The idea of self-control gains in importance when you realize that if a person can\u2019t control themselves, it is highly debatable if they can control others, thus they disqualify themselves for effective leadership.\u00a0 The Apostle Paul wrote to his young friend, Titus and told him to, \u201cEncourage the young men to be self-controlled\u201d (Titus 2:6, NIV).\u00a0 So, what is there in your life that you need to bring under self-control? It is after all, a God-given ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As he admitted to a wrongdoing, the young man said, \u201cI just couldn\u2019t control myself.\u201d\u00a0 Self-control is a difficult thing.\u00a0 It has to do with discipline, and discipline is hard.\u00a0 We live in an out-of-control society and If you don\u2019t discipline yourself, someone else will control you. Thus the importance of self-control.\u00a0 It is similar…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}