let's not forget...

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body." "Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own. For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."

When I think of self-control, I think of three areas: Our words from our mouth, the food we put in our mouths, and the things we do with our bodies.

I also believe that the reason so many of us struggle with these three things is because it is hard to understand how to lean on God for strength. We are deceived into thinking that this is our body. But this is simply not so. This is such a hard lesson for myself and others to learn. We try so hard to have this self control on our own, but we will fail. We must realize to daily...and I'll say it again, DAILY, rely on Christ's strength to get us through these battles.

Words, Food, and Passion should not control us...God should control those things in our lives.

Thankfully we have a patient God that never gives up on teaching His children.