Be Temperate
2 Peter 1:5, 6 – "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge, ..."
There is great need to be temperate. Don’t be harsh and high tempered. Intemperateness is the devil’s tool and it never means well for a Christian.
Take heed to thy body: be temperate without. Take heed to thy soul: be temperate within. Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought. Add to this, by God's Holy Spirit, patience; ask Him to give thee that patience which endureth affliction, which, when it is tried, shall come forth as gold.
Array yourself with patience, that you may not murmur nor be depressed in your afflictions. When that grace is won look to godliness. Godliness is something more than religion. Make God's glory your object in life; live in His sight; dwell close to Him; seek for fellowship with Him; and thou hast "godliness"; and to that add brotherly love.
Without temperateness, one can’t possess the others stated in the scripture above. Shalom!
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