Self Control

This is a weird way to wake up, but I am weird. Last night I started reading 2 Peter. Well one of the sections talked about sanctification and self control. When I was done reading I stayed up playing games on facebook and looking at sports. This morning when I woke up the passage I read last night was in my head. Basically what it said is that the Holy Spirit gives you self control. When you put your faith and trust in Jesus you get the Holy Spirit and when we yeild to Him we will have self control. Well that blows the escuse that I lack self control out of the water. I have self control because of the Spirits work in my life. I just have to choose to use it. I hate when I have to take credit for my own lazyness.

2 Peter 1:5-11
5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better. 6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. 7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. 8 The more you grow like this, the more you will become productive and useful in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But those who fail to develop these virtues are blind or, at least, very shortsighted. They have already forgotten that God has cleansed them from their old life of sin. 10 So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Doing this, you will never stumble or fall away. 11 And God will open wide the gates of heaven for you to enter into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.