Parker Inspirations

My thoughts today are about my Sunday school lesson on Self Control. The fruit of the Spirit is Temperance. (Galatians 5:22-24 “²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

²³ Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ²⁴ And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

 I really struggle with reacting to circumstances. I get really frustrated with people who waste my time. The thought is “Am I being selfish when others are wasting my time?” I am very time oriented and when something happens that stops me from finishing what I am doing, it really frustrates me. If the task is such that I can stop and come back to it, I am usually a little more flexible. People are going to be rude and unconcerned about the world around them. I don’t have to let that affect me.

It really doesn’t matter what the circumstance is, if it is not against God we should not react. I am not anyone special, so I need to learn to stop and think about what is happening. Then I can react properly to the circumstance. (2 Peter 1:5-8 “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; ⁶ And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;⁷ And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.⁸ For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.)

When we allow the Holy Spirit be in control we will have more self-control. I know this to be true, because I don’t always react. I use to just tell others what I thought and I didn’t care if they liked it or not.  Little by little every day, the Lord is changing me. As I write about my journey, I can see different things that I use to do, I don’t do anymore. So I know that even this area of self-control will be a use to thing. This will come from searching and adding to my life every day from God’s Word.