Like a City Broken Down
Many people go through life with very little personal discipline. They exist at the whim of their feelings or the circumstances around them. This makes their life very chaotic and hectic. It is very difficult to get anything worthwhile done, because of their lack of control. They live in frustration, and when they look back they have all kinds of regrets for the things they did not do. What a miserable life! The Bible makes a point about this situation that gives us a good insight. We need to really take what it says to heart. (Proverbs 25:28) "Whoever has no rule over his own spirit is like a city broken down, without walls." Just soak in that word picture for a minute. How would it be to live in a city where everything was broken down, and there were no walls to keep out the enemies? See what God means for us to learn? We must learn to exercise control over our own spirit. After all, it is our spirit. No one else can control it as it should be controlled. We must learn God...