To JESUS
happiness belongs to people with self-control.
You say, “That leaves me out! I
can’t control my reactions! I can’t get
them under control!” And that’s right. But I know somebody who can help you get them
under control.
2 Timothy 1.7 (NCV), “GOD did not give us a
spirit that makes us afraid but a spirit of power and love and self-control.”
GOD
says, “When I put MY spirit in you, I don’t turn you into a wimp.”
The
results are three fold: power, love,
self-control. The secret of controlling
your reaction is letting GOD’s SPIRIT fill your life moment by moment. HE’ll break all those bad habits, all those
patterns of reacting, all those old ways of being negative, defensive, reacting
in fear, in anger, in sarcasm. HE can
break all those old patterns in your life and fill your life with power, love,
self-control.
That is
meekness. Power controlled by love. Even though you could blow them away you don’t. JESUS is the prime example of this. We’re talking about the lifestyle of JESUS
CHRIST. HE’s hanging on the cross and HE
could have called ten thousand angels.
HE could have blown up the world.
Power
controlled by love. This is the happy,
relaxed, stress reduced type of life style.
You roll with the punches. Things
don't fluster you because you’re in control of your reactions even though you can’t
control the situation.
Some of
you are stressed out. You’re stressed
out by relationships. What do you need
more than anything else? You need to
develop the quality of meekness, the quality of controlling my reactions by the
SPIRIT of GOD. When HE comes into my
life HE gives me power controlled by love.
Just a
thought from the front porch…
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