Victory in Virtue Part 9: Self-Discipline

With the Virtue of Self-Discipline, we hold ourselves Spiritually accountable and make sure we’re practicing the other Virtues (Charity, Prudence, etc.) as best we can. We control how we live, building a life where we can avoid sinful temptations and grow in Spiritual maturity in Christ.

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The Victory in Virtue Series

Intro

Part 1: Faith

Part 2: Hope

Part 3: Charity

Part 4: Piety

Part 5: Prudence

Part 6: Justice

Part 7: Fortitude

Part 8: Temperance

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Hello Readers, hope all’s well. Today I present another entry in the Victory in Virtue series. Today’s post is on the Virtue of Self-Discipline.

What do you think of when you hear the words Self-Discipline? Do you think of dieting and exercise? Or do you think of being responsible with your money and your time?

The Virtue of Self-Discipline is involved in all those things, but as usual there’s much more to it. Self-Discipline is a Virtue that is essential for our Spiritual growth as Christians. So it’s a critical Virtue to understand and build up.

So that’s what today’s post is about. It’s a long post, so let’s get straight into it.

What Is the Virtue of Self-Discipline?

The Virtue of Faith is the solid foundation that supports the other Virtues laid on top of it. The Virtue of Self-Discipline is the structure—the cement and pillars and beams—that holds everything together. We need the Virtue of Self-Discipline if we plan to live a life of Christian Faith. If we plan to follow through on what we say, with actions. If we plan to be about Christianity and not just talk about it. This is because the flesh and its desires are always there, tempting us to sin. Tempting us to rest from the difficult labor of maintaining Self-Discipline. If we give into those temptations, we lead ourselves into sin and undo the progress we made on our Christian walk.

To avoid this problem, we need to live a life of Virtue. To live a life of Virtue, we need to have the Virtue of Self-Discipline. This path ain’t easy. But it’s well worth it.

Having Discipline in our life does more than play a huge part in bringing our desires under control. It’s also the key to ordering all parts of our life to create the most benefit for ourselves. Self-Discipline is the key to living our best life: A Virtuous life. A Virtuous life is more fulfilling, enjoyable, and comes with less conflict. I wrote about this in Part 5: Prudence.

Imposing Self-Discipline on our life allows us to get the most out of life. If we create a routine and are Disciplined about following it, we use our time most effectively. If we cut out bad foods and are Disciplined about having a healthier diet, we can enjoy life more, with less health problems. But acting in a Disciplined way—structuring our time and bringing our appetites under control, etc.—is only the beginning.

We must Discipline our mind and what thoughts we think about. This is hard, because we can’t control what thoughts arise, or when. We’re always bombarded by temptations and sinful thoughts, which include negative thoughts. It’s easy to lose Faith and Hope when we’re suffering, leading us into despair. Cling tightly to Hope and Faith because we’re lost without them. Remember that it’s the devil who wants us to give up hope, and give into despair. We must exert Discipline over our thoughts, rejecting all sinful and negative thoughts when they come up.

We must Discipline our heart, and never abandon the Virtues of Charity, Piety, and Justice. It’s easy to let this cruel world turn our heart cold, making us turn our back on God and others. We don’t need to be cruel because the world is, and we don’t need to add to the cruelty. We must Discipline our heart and emotions, and never let our love run cold.

We must Discipline our use of time, so we do important things each day and don’t waste our time. If we don’t plan what we’re going to do with our time, we often end up wasting our time and doing nothing. Since every day of life is a precious gift from God, it’s a sin to waste even one day doing nothing. That’s why we feel bad when we do that. We must Discipline our use of time, so we don’t waste our precious time, which is a gift from God.

We must Discipline our body, and crucify the flesh. It’s easy to overindulge or even be driven by our physical desires and lusts. We must cultivate Prudence, and Discipline our body through Temperance, thereby building up our Fortitude. We must Discipline our flesh so that we can walk in the Spirit.

Self-Discipline is what allows us to ‘walk in the Spirit.’ What does that mean? Refer to Galatians 5:16-26. I’ve written about this topic quite a few times on my blog, most recently in Do Not Fear the End Times Part 51. But I’ll give a quick summary one more time.

First, let’s look at the passage:

(16) I say be guided by the Spirit and you won’t carry out your selfish desires. (17) A person’s selfish desires are set against the Spirit, and the Spirit is set against one’s selfish desires. They are opposed to each other, so you shouldn’t do whatever you want to do. (18) But if you are being led by the Spirit, you aren’t under the Law. (19) The actions that are produced by selfish motives are obvious, since they include sexual immorality, moral corruption, doing whatever feels good, (20) idolatry, drug use and casting spells, hate, fighting, obsession, losing your temper, competitive opposition, conflict, selfishness, group rivalry, (21) jealousy, drunkenness, partying, and other things like that. I warn you as I have already warned you, that those who do these kinds of things won’t inherit God’s kingdom.
(22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against things like this. (24) Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the self with its passions and its desires. (25) If we live by the Spirit, let’s follow the Spirit. (26) Let’s not become arrogant, make each other angry, or be jealous of each other.

Galatians 5:16-26 (CEB)

The Spirit and the flesh are opposed to each other. If we indulge our desires for pleasures of the flesh, the Spirit becomes weaker, and vice-versa (v. 16-17). If we indulge in pleasures of the flesh, it leads to sins such as sexual immorality, debauchery, hatred, and more (v. 19-21). This is a life of doing whatever we want, and Galatians 5 calls it out as wrong. In this kind of life, our desires control us instead of the other way around.

But if we deny the flesh and its desires, it strengthens our Spirit, and we produce the fruits of the Spirit. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (v. 22-23).

So there you have it: Self-Discipline (self-control) is one of the fruits of the Spirit. This shows us that Self-Discipline is Virtuous, and a Virtuous life produces Self-Discipline.

Paul mentions Self-Discipline once again, in 2 Timothy 1. Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 1:7 that the Spirit God gave us is powerful, loving, and one of self-control.

(7) God didn’t give us a spirit that is timid but one that is powerful, loving, and self-controlled.

2 Timothy 1:7 (CEB)

Here we see it again: The Holy Spirit is a Spirit of Self-Discipline. The further we go on this Christian walk, the more we will build up our Self-Discipline. At the same time, we need the Virtue of Self-Discipline to make progress on this Christian walk of ours.

Like I said at the beginning, if Faith is the foundation of our house (a Virtuous life), the Virtue of Self-Discipline is the structure that holds it all together. The beams, the supports, and so on. It’s easy to live an unDisciplined life without Virtue. It’s easy to live how the world lives, living by our lusts and our desires, always chasing our latest desire. Doing whatever we want to do instead of what we need to do. Seeking out temporary comforts like food, sex, and entertainment instead of building the long-lasting happiness and peace that comes from living well. The long-lasting peace, contentment, and happiness that a life of Virtue provides.

The desires of our flesh are natural. It’s OK to partake of the temporary pleasures of this temporary world in moderation. I wrote about that in Part 8: Temperance. But we need to be very careful, because the flesh is always there to tempt us with our desire for all the pleasures we can enjoy here in this world. It takes Self-Discipline to fight those temptations.

The natural urge of our flesh is to skip Discipline. To seek out comfort and pleasure and enjoy ourselves. Any kind of training, whether it’s physical or Spiritual, takes Self-Discipline because we have to fight the desire of our flesh to be comfortable and lazy. So living a Christian life in this world takes an incredible amount of Self-Discipline. It always has.

And I should point out that nothing has been harder for me than Disciplining my mind. We’re bombarded with thousands of thoughts every day, one after another. We can’t control what thoughts arise or when, but we can control how we react to them. We can accept them, agree with them, or reject them and cast them down. To Discipline our mind, rejecting and casting down all sinful thoughts, is especially difficult and takes incredible Self-Discipline. If we can Discipline our minds in this way, we can Discipline our emotions (our hearts) to some extent too.

That’s why I say the Virtue of Self-Discipline is the structure that holds our house (a Virtuous life) together. It takes great Self-Discipline to live any of the Virtues I’ve written about in this series. This walk isn’t easy. But with the Virtue of Self-Discipline, we can do it, we can keep it together. We can stay on the narrow path.

Our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ told us this Himself, way back in the first century. He said that there are many easy ways to live life, such as doing whatever we want with no Discipline. That’s easy and comfortable, so many people choose to live that way. But living a Christian life, one of Virtue and Self-Discipline, now that’s hard. And that’s why many people reject it. It takes great Self-Discipline and the right attitude to deny ourselves all the tempting pleasures of this world. It takes great Self-Discipline to live an ordered life, instead of a life where we do whatever we want at the moment. That’s a life of endlessly chasing whatever our latest desire is. It’s a hopeless pursuit that never ends. The life of Self-Discipline is much more rewarding, but it’s much harder. And it’s harder because we have to overcome our natural instincts for comfort if we want to live that Virtuous life of Self-Discipline.

(13) Go in through the narrow gate. The gate that leads to destruction is broad and the road wide, so many people enter through it. (14) But the gate that leads to life is narrow and the road difficult, so few people find it.

Matthew 7:13-14 (CEB)

The way of the Virtue of Self-Discipline is the narrow path. And to walk the difficult, narrow path of Christianity, we need the Virtue of Self-Discipline.

With the Virtue of Self-Discipline, we hold ourselves Spiritually accountable and make sure we’re practicing the other Virtues (Charity, Prudence, etc.) as best we can. We control how we live, building a life where we can avoid sinful temptations and grow in Spiritual maturity in Christ.

The easiest way to start boosting our Spirit is to try some fasting, if we can. Food is the most readily available pleasure of the flesh, and bringing our desire for food under control helps us Discipline our other desires too. At the same time, even one lapse in Self-Discipline can easily create a domino effect of other collapses of Self-Discipline for our other desires. Before we know it, we’re right back to where we were with our addictions and temptations.

Deny the flesh, boost the Spirit!

As always, the final part of this post will be about how to live the Virtue of Self-Discipline. So read on to the end for some ideas on how to start building Self-Discipline. That section will focus mostly on using Self-Discipline to Discipline our use of time. If we’re unDisciplined about how we spend our days, we’ll end up wasting time and doing nothing important all day, which is a sin.

But don’t forget that the Virtue of Self-Discipline is more than sticking to a diet and exercise routine. It’s also about controlling our own hearts and minds. We must Discipline our thoughts and our emotions too.

And with that, let’s move on to some prayers for the Virtue of Self-Discipline.

Prayers for the Virtue of Self-Discipline

There are many prayers we could pray to receive the Virtue of Self-Discipline. The best ones of course will be the ones that we create ourselves—the ones that come straight from the heart. Remember: When we pray we aren’t trying to say the right combination of words to unlock something in Heaven. No, that would be magic, which is an abomination to the LORD. Prayer is much simpler. Simply tell the LORD what you want, what you need, what’s on your mind, what’s bothering you, and so on.

Praying for a Virtue is a great way to build it up. It’s one of the best ways, actually. So here are a few short, simple prayers for the Virtue of Self-Discipline you can try adding to your prayer routine.

Strengthen my Resolve to Stick to the Path

A life of Self-Discipline is hard. Our natural inclination is to be comfortable and unDisciplined. Even in the mere act of getting up to do a workout, we have to first overcome our body’s desire to be lazy. We’re always being called on to Discipline every part of our lives—how we use our time, where we go, who we hang out with, what we’re doing in life, and more. If we don’t have Self-Discipline, all these things fall apart. We give in to our urge to sit around playing games, to sit around eating, to chase women, and other distractions. The pursuit of Self-Discipline is, in many ways, a battle against distractions that lead us away from our goals.

But make no mistake about it—this life isn’t easy! Although things like exercise become easier as they become strong habits, the temptation is always there to indulge in pleasure or comfort instead of sticking to our Spiritual goals. So this prayer asks God to please strengthen us so that we can stick to our path. So that we have the strength to keep exerting Self-Discipline in our lives, which isn’t easy. The strength we need to keep living this life without giving in to the temptation to be unDisciplined can only come from God.

O God, please forgive me my flaws and my sins. Though I can never achieve perfection, I seek to overcome myself as best I can through the power of Jesus Christ. Strengthen my resolve to stick to the path I am following for my own betterment. Please encourage me on my path and hold me accountable to it. Grant me the Virtue of Self-Discipline, that I may live a disciplined, Virtuous life serving others for Your sake. Amen.

Disciplined: Prayer for Discipline

Here’s a prayer I found on a nice site called Warriors for Christ. The prayer is called “Disciplined: Prayer for Discipline.”

A large part of the Virtue of Self-Discipline is Disciplining our use of time. If we don’t plan our day (not all the way, but at least the major goals we want to do that day), we often end up doing nothing important. This is like running around aimlessly. Our time is precious, because we can never get it back. And we have to leave time in our day for eating and sleeping and so on. So the rest of the time we have for working on our goals, we need to use it effectively.

This prayer, which again you can find HERE, is a prayer asking for God’s help so that we don’t waste our day. Check it out:

Father, I pray today that I don’t run around aimlessly, that I discipline my mind and body to seek you Lord God and not the world. Lord I pray as I read your word, that I meditate on it, that I let your living word live in me, that I run my race for you Lord, in whatever area you have called me to run. Let my life bring praise and glory to you Father, not myself. Let me take joy because of you Lord, as I train for this race you have set for me. Let me be full of joy and peace as I train because I am in your presence. Lord I ask this in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.

Self control as “God-control”

Here’s a prayer I found at ChristiansTT. This prayer is entitled “Self Control as ‘God-Control.'” I hadn’t thought of the idea of “God-Control” before, but it’s an excellent idea! Our God gave us a Spirit that is, among other things, self-controlled (2 Timothy 1:7). This is the Holy Spirit.

When we exercise the Virtue of Self-Discipline, we invite the Holy Spirit to direct and guide us. This is because we’re following the Spirit, not the flesh, and so we are ready to be led by the Spirit. This means relying on God’s Spirit to resist temptation instead of our own strength, which is a recipe for failure every time. The idea of “God-Control” acknowledges that we need God’s help to do anything. And we definitely need His help to follow the difficult life of Self-Discipline!

So this is a prayer God for the Virtue of Self-Discipline to guide our ways and choices. Once again, you can find this prayer HERE. It’s a great prayer, check it out:

Father, please forgive me for the times I have said and done things rashly. Please remind me to consider self-control as “God-control”. It’s not trying to control myself with human effort. But rather it is depending on the Holy Spirit to guide my ways and choices.

Lord Jesus Christ, You defeated satan in his attempts to tempt you to flaunt Your power with a spirit of self control. And now I call upon Your blessed name. I ask You to bless me with this virtue, which is very much needed in most aspects of life.

I seek Your assistance and guidance. May Your Holy Spirit fill me with power, as I come in prayer and raise my supplications before You.

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age. (Titus 2:11-13)

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Again, there are so many options for praying for any Virtue. I could go on and on and on. Everyone is always welcome to leave a comment with prayers of their own.

But once we’re done praying, it’s time to take action (in the physical world). Let’s move on to that now.

Living the Virtue

To cultivate a Virtue, we must also practice it, and do that consistently. Don’t just do it a few times and stop there—stay consistent. That consistency is how we build up a habit. It’s also how we cultivate and strengthen a virtue.

So how can we do that with Self-Discipline? Let’s look at a few practical ideas. And remember: These are only a start! The possibilities are endless. I welcome any comments with good ideas about this.

Here are just a few ideas of how we can live out the Virtue of Self-Discipline in our own lives:

• Create a routine you will stick to; build up good habits that improve yourself, cut out bad habits
• Plan how you spend your time each day, so you waste less time doing nothing
• Fast and abstain from all pleasures of the flesh for a time, to boost your Spirit
• And other ideas you can think of!

The Virtue of Self-Discipline is one of those Virtues where the more we use it, the more we build it up. We need to have it to be able to use it, but don’t worry, because using it builds it up so we have more of it. Did you follow that? The more we exert Self-Discipline in all parts of our lives, the more Self-Discipline we will have. The routines we create become strong habits if we use Self-Discipline to follow them. This makes it easier to stick with our routines and pursuit of our goals. On that note, let’s talk about routines.

To start building the Virtue of Self-Discipline, we need to start structuring our lives if we haven’t already. We need to create routines in our life, ones that create good habits which build us up. For example, we need to create an exercise routine. We need to set aside scheduled times during the week for some quality physical exercise, and stick to the routine. The more we use Self-Discipline to follow the routine, even when we don’t want to, the more we build Self-Discipline.

We should build routines for constructive activities that build us up and improve us. We want to create routines that instill good habits in us. For example, we want an exercise routine, a reading routine, and a prayer routine. The more Disciplined we are about exercising at certain times, reading at certain times, and praying at certain times, the more we’ll end up doing these things, and the more habitual they become. The end result is that we have better habits. If we have a life of better, positive habits, then we’re going to be healthier and achieve more.

The opposite of that is also important. We need to use Self-Discipline to cut out bad habits that do nothing for us or waste our time. We need the Virtue of Self-Discipline to limit our time playing video games, for example. Or other mindless, time-wasting entertainment like TV and many other things. That stuff wastes our time, but it’s very tempting, so we need Self-Discipline to strictly limit our use of it or avoid it altogether.

We also need Self-Discipline to say “no” to time-wasting invitations like hanging out at a bar drinking with other people. Hanging out with friends and drinking (or smoking pot, or whatever) is a waste of time, whether it’s at a bar or not. We’re not doing anything but drinking (or whatever) the whole time we’re hanging out, and this does nothing for us in the long-term.

When we use the Virtue of Self-Discipline to structure our lives, we want to create routines that build or strengthen good habits which improve us while also removing bad, time-wasting habits that do nothing for us.

Moving on, we also need to plan out each of our days, at least to some extent. It’s neurotic, unrealistic, and unnecessary to plan out every minute of our day. We never know what surprises God will hit us with each day, forcing us to spend time dealing with something we weren’t planning on. It happens. Life is random and things pop up with no warning.

But if we don’t at least plan out some goals that we want to do that day, we’re more likely to end up doing nothing important. In my case, if I don’t plan out my day at all, I waste time doing nothing while I think about what I should do with my time right now!

So what I’ve done to solve my problem is to have a checklist of the daily “objectives” that I plan to do each day. I keep the checklist on my computer, and I write down objectives like: Writing, reading, exercise, shopping and errands, and so on. As I go through the day I check things off as I finish them. At the end of the day, I erase the list and write my objectives for the next day.

The result of this has been living a more structured life of routines, and I get much more done than I used to. I write more, writing three posts for my blog per week. I always spend time reading every day, you get the idea. If I didn’t plan out my objectives for each day, I wouldn’t be getting as much of this stuff done. I realized I needed guidance for myself to make sure I was using my time effectively to get things done. If we don’t plan out our days, we’re at great risk of wasting our days, and that’s a sin because every day is a gift from God. We must use them preciously, and never waste them.

So I recommend some kind of checklist for your daily goals. Maybe you can use a small whiteboard or something. But do plan out your day.

Finally, to build the Virtue of Self-Discipline we need to practice fasting and abstinence, like I mentioned above. When we deny the flesh, we boost the Spirit. And the best way to start denying the flesh is fasting, because food is the most easily-available pleasure of the flesh. Our appetite for food is usually the first appetite that gets out of control. It’s the temptation that trips up the most people. It builds great Self-Discipline to attack this appetite head on, and bring it under our control.

Besides fasting, we should also spend time abstaining from our favorite pleasures of the world, whatever those may be. The pleasures we want the most, the ones that tempt us the most. You can pray to the Holy Spirit for Wisdom and figure out which pleasures those are in your life. When we figure it out, we should abstain from them. It builds great Self-Discipline to voluntarily give up and stay away from what we want and enjoy the most.

If we realize we can moderate our use of that pleasure, then we can use the Virtue of Self-Discipline on ourselves to strictly limit our use of it. If we strictly limit our use of it, before long we won’t be so tempted by it anymore and will be OK with enjoying it in moderation. For example, I only play video games on the weekend. I don’t touch them during the week. This schedule has become such a strong habit that most of the time I don’t even feel tempted to play video games. I know I can do it on the weekend, and I’m OK waiting until then.

But if we realize that we can’t moderate our use of the pleasure, and it’s too strong a temptation or a stumbling block, then we need to cut it out of our life. That’s when we use the Virtue of Self-Discipline to stop using it (abstain), then avoid it entirely by staying away from the people, places, and things connected with it. It takes great Self-Discipline, Temperance, and Prudence to do this. We need to pray to the LORD for help in our battle against strong temptations like this, because we don’t have the strength to do it alone. But with the Virtue of Self-Discipline, which the LORD gives us, we can remove these temptations we can’t control from our lives.

In any case, fasting and abstaining from worldly pleasures builds our Virtue of Self-Discipline. It takes Self-Discipline to deny our flesh in this way. It’s essential that we do this on some level all the time, and on an intensified level at certain times of the year. Even attempting this will build our Virtue of Self-Discipline. If we fail at our Discipline goal, and get up and try it again, we are definitely on the right track and will build more Self-Discipline each time we get back up. Because our natural instinct will be to stay down, defeated but we overcome that. So in that sense getting back up after we fall takes great Self-Discipline, and builds Self-Discipline too.

A Battle Against our Self

As usual with this Virtue series, the Virtue of Self-Discipline is more than it seems at first. It’s about more than dieting, sticking to a workout routine, or budgeting.

The common theme in all matters of Self-Discipline is our battle against our self. Our battle against our own flesh, our battle against our own mind. Our battle against what our body wants, versus what our Spirit needs.

If we live an unDisciplined life—following every desire whenever it arises, living a life of constant indulgence in short-term pleasure and distraction, doing whatever we want, whenever we want—then we become controlled by our desires. Controlled by our flesh. We become a slave to whatever we want. All this is wrong, because it should be the other way around. We, the human person, should be the one in control of ourselves and what we do. Not our desires.

The struggle to build the Virtue of Self-Discipline is a struggle against our natural instincts. Our flesh wants to be comfortable, and it wants to enjoy all the pleasures of this world. We have other natural instincts too, besides the flesh. When we see the terrible things going on in the world today, we might be tempted to despair and give in to negative thoughts. The struggle for Self-Discipline is more than a struggle against the flesh. It’s a struggle on many levels.

We have to Discipline our minds and hearts. We have to control our thoughts and emotions, keeping them in line with God’s Will. We have to Discipline ourselves not to indulge hateful, lustful, greedy, and other negative thoughts or emotions.

We have to Discipline our use of time. If we don’t control how we spend our days, we’ll end up wasting our days. And this is a sin, because our days are not meant to be wasted. The LORD has given us our days, every one of them, for a reason. He wants us to do something with our time. If we don’t control how we use our time, we don’t use it as effectively as we could. That will only harm us in the short and long-term.

We have to Discipline our body and its appetites. We need to fight the body’s desires for comfort and pleasure, and get enough exercise. We need to control all the appetites of the body; its appetite for food, sex, and all other pleasures. If we don’t Discipline the body’s appetites, those appetites will control us instead. That’s not what God intended.

To sum up all the above, we must build the Virtue of Self-Discipline in all parts of our life.

Remember the words of 2 Timothy 1:7—our God gave us a Spirit of self-control (among other things).

(7) God didn’t give us a spirit that is timid but one that is powerful, loving, and self-controlled.

2 Timothy 1:7 (CEB)

When we use self-control (Self-Discipline), we’re walking in the Spirit. It’s the Holy Spirit inside us that gives us this self-control. When we use Self-Discipline to control our desires, we’re crucifying the flesh and its selfish desires. Refer to Galatians 5.

(24) Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the self [flesh] with its passions and its desires.

Galatians 5:24 (CEB)

So controlling our desires for worldly pleasures is a very important part of our Christianity and our Spiritual growth. When we use Self-Discipline, we’re walking in the Spirit and not the flesh. We’re doing the difficult work of denying the flesh. It’s not easy! This life of Virtuous Self-Discipline is a tough one, more difficult than the alternative of indulging in whatever pleasures we desire at the moment. But a life of Self-Discipline is well worth it and offers great Spiritual benefits right away.

Even attempting to deny the flesh is a good thing. Many people don’t even go that far. We’re going to fail at first. We’re going to fail many times. But as long as we keep getting up after our failure, we’ll keep building more Self-Discipline every time. Before long, we’ll have more Self-Discipline than ever before. And then we can get much better at crucifying the flesh. Once we reach that point, we’re on our way to major Spiritual growth in Christ Jesus.

Deny the flesh, boost the Spirit! Build the Virtue of Self-Discipline now!

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