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Chose Self Control

"Self" is not our body, our heart, or our mind, bur rather our soul, which will live on after the body is dead and returned to dust. C. S. Lewis writes that we, as humans, have a natural law that has been given to us by God and it is a law of goodness and love. In order for our being to have any meaning we have also been granted a free will to either obey this law or not.

So the question is: Do we wish to allow our body, which is temporary and corruptible,  control our deeds and actions? Do we want to allow the pleasures and attractions of the materialistic world dictate our behavior? Or, would it be better to seek the real "self" and the law within it?

Since that law is God given, it is inherently right and good. 

A prudent person does not go wherever and whenever he is led by something or someone that comes by with a suggestion. The prudent person uses discretion according to values and goals that have been nurtured and established within. That is Self Control.

Self control is knowing what is good for the soul and making decisions about the conduct of life according to those pre-established values. As Max Lucado so aptly put it, "I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal."

Chose Self Control ...

Don Plefka
02/24/03