Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
The wise are cautious and turn away from evil, but the fool throws off restraint
and is careless.
"For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do
are what I am doing...For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self. But I
discern in my bodily members a different law at war with the law of my mind and making me a
prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs. O unhappy and pitiable and wretched
man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE)
Can there be a more relevant passage of Scripture for many of us? The battle for control.
Plato once said, "For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all virtues." The writer
John Milton put it like this: "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and
fears, is more than a king."
(Proverbs 14.16
NRSV)
It's been said that there are only two pains in life--the pain of discipline and the pain of regret,
and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. There are many of us who can
sympathize with Paul when he writes,
God of all humanity, teach me self control, so that I may truly honor your will. Amen.
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