SELF DISCIPLINE
By
self discipline, I mean being able to control the way you behave or respond to
a given situation and make yourself dot things that you believe you should do
without being compelled. It is the capital price that must be paid to
obtain the price (greatness) it is doing what is demanded and not what is convenient,
it is the key to success, the gateway to distinction, the guarantee for dignity
and the key to relevance. When you are not disciplined, you can as well forget
about success. As a student, you should be able to go extra mils by studying
hard while others are fast asleep. As a worker or a business man, you should be
diligent, dedicated and be punctual at the place of your work and be ready to
put in extra time and efforts, if necessary. As a minister of the gospel, you
must discipline yourself not o live to the way others do. You must be
disciplined enough to put in extra effort in fasting, prayer and in studying of
the word. You must go at least a step higher than the laities. Remember
success in life and ministry do not come by chance, neither is it meant for the
wreck less; otherwise Samson, Esau and Judas Iscariot won’t have missed
it. Put on the virtue of self discipline.
"Rend your heart, and not your garments." --Joel 2:13 Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven. HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud un-humbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.
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