DISCIPLINE: WHY DO WE NEED IT?

We have been created in the image of God. We are creatures of both time and eternity.  Discipline is a must because of the awesome freedom and potential within each of us. 

·        God’s discipline will bring us to the destination that lasts rather than a blind alley of stagnation.

·        A child specialist has observed that in critical illness the child who has been taught to obey stands a four times better chance of recovery than the undisciplined one.

·        “Train yourself in godliness…godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”  I Timothy 4:8

The discipline of Jesus:  “And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.”

CARPE DIEM

CARPE DIEM (Seize the Day)

This day is “opportunity gift wrapped in a few short hours.”

Seize this day with the determination that you are going to make a step towards being the person that you want to be.  You will discover that if you “begin to weave, God will give you the thread.”

                  REMEMBER

        Habits are “trait jackets.”

The good ones have to be cultivated.

        The bad ones grow wild.

For all of us life presents the choice of “more rigor” or “rigor mortis.”  Choose “life as the journey of long obedience” in God’s direction rather than stagnation and death in the blind alley of careless indifference.