Pr. 25:28: “Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls.”
We’ve been learning this great verse about self-control in Sunday school this month. Yesterday I heard the perfect example of what it means.
My friend’s 4-year-old son told her that the devil was trying to get him to break his bed. He said, “I’m going to tell him to leave, and I’m going to read my Word of God!”
We all have different struggles and temptations. For a teenager, it might be stealing. For a married adult, it could be adultery. For another, it could be hate and unforgiveness. For a 4-year-old boy, it might be the temptation to break his bed.
We can learn a lot from this 4-year-old. He had enough rule over his own spirit that he didn’t simply give in to his temptation. As adults, our justifications and excuses sure make it seem complicated to resist our temptations; however, it couldn’t be more simple.
Note what he did: He identified the desire as coming from the devil. He told the devil to leave. He read his Word of God! Isn’t this what the Bible tells us to do?
Thank you for the lesson, Isaiah,
jamie
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