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12…Can Do!

Good morning! As I was reading in Galatians last night, God showed me something new. Don’t you just love how He does that? You can read the same passage over and over again and then the next time you read it, God shows you something you hadn’t seen before. I shouldn’t be surprised because the Bible is the Living Word of God. Anyway, here are the verses I read in Galatians 5:22-23:

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

It’s the fruit of self-control that got my attention this time. I’ve always associated the things that we shouldn’t do as the self-control things. You know, like having enough self-control so you don’t lash out in anger, or push away from the table so you don’t eat too much, or keep your mouth in check so you don’t have to apologize later for your words spoken in haste.

But last night I started looking at self-control as things I should be doing. Things like having enough self-control to put down that TV remote, and pick up the Bible to read or to call a friend to focus on their issues instead of our own. In life, aren’t we more apt to do the things on the “can do” list over the “don’t do” list? So, as I go through today, I’m going to focus on the “can do” of self-control and see how many things I can add to that list. Hope you’ll join me.