Power, Love and Self-Discipline

Don't you love when you can't remember something so you write it down - but then forget where you write it.  I did but them I remembered that I wrote it on a tissue, which I threw it in my purse and then couldn't find it among  all my tissues. I eventually found it and  I wrote down  2 Timothy 1:17 to look up for this blog. But when I did looked up it made no sense at all because the scripture I should of wrote down was 2 Timothy 1:7 - duh.

7 For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 

Self-discipline, self-control - I lack it.  I am good up until lunch and then it is a down hill slide the rest of the day.  BUT the Spirit of GOD has given me this.  I really don't lack it I just don't use it.   He has given you and me the POWER!

Power is such a strong word - I was going to put the definition here but it was quite lengthy - some of them are:  1) ability to act or produce an effect   2)  legal or official authority, capacity, or right  3) a controlling group 4) physical might  - and it goes on and on.

One definition that I found very interesting  was an Order of Angels.  "Celestial Hierarchy:    a traditional hierarchy of angels ranked from lowest to highest into the following nine orders: angels, archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim."  Who knew.

Back to self-discipline -  I really need to pray, pull, tug on that power, love and self-discipline God has given me instead of letting snacks & chocolate take control.

So I say, Get behind me demon food!  Oh wait - that's where it all went.

In conclusion p
ray today for whatever power you need, I will  and have a great day.

Some Wisdom from Proverbs

This could possibly be one of my new favorite proverbs

Proverbs 25:  ¹⁶ If you find honey, eat just enough—
    too much of it, and you will vomit.

That truly made me smile this morning, especially since I have a problem with sugar.  I love sugar, I love candy and of course, I love chocolate.  I over indulge in these way to often and sometimes,  I  feel sick from it.  But I don't learn from it at all.  

In fact, it is addressed again later in Proverbs 25:  ²⁷ It is not good to eat too much honey,

    nor is it honorable to search out matters that are too deep.

²⁸ Like a city whose walls are broken through
    is a person who lacks self-control.

Oh oh, I am like a city whose walls are broken through.  I have been lacking that self-control lately, and that is why I have been looking up scriptures on the same.  I know I have self-control I just need to exercise it.  It seems so much easier some days to pop those M & M's than leave them lay.  Even though I know one handful leads to three.    So for today I am going to say in my head, when I pass the M & M's the following:

Beverbs 1:1 If you find M&M's, eat just enough-too much of them, and you will vomit, feel sluggish and crappy the rest of the day.

Actually,  I will try to avoid them completely;  but it is better to learn to be satisfied with a lot less, then a lot more.  

Proverbs 25 has some good verses - some that make me just laugh out loud - like verse 24 -

Better to live on a corner of the roof
    than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Have a great day!