<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation:</span><br><span class="italic">     <span class="scriptRef" ref="ga+5:16-26">Galatians 5:16-26</span></span></p><p>So important is the point we raised yesterday - the need for selective expression - that we will spend another day considering it. Listen to how the Amplified Bible translates  <span class="scriptRef" ref="ps+73:15">Psalm 73:15</span>: "Had I spoken thus and given expression to my feelings, I would have been untrue and have dealt treacherously against the generation of your children" (emphasis mine). Notice that although the psalmist experienced strong feelings of uncertainty, he refrained from expressing these emotions because they would have had a negative effect upon his brothers and sisters. He acknowledged his emotions, but he refused to express them because he knew they would hurt and hinder the family of God. Expression of our feelings with no thought of another's welfare amounts to sinful, selfish indulgence. We must allow ourselves to feel the full weight of our emotions but then subordinate their expression to the purposes of God. Only if it is God's will for us to share those feelings with others must we do so. Thus the apostle could write stinging words of rebuke to the Corinthian church because his words were in harmony with God's purposes. We have to be on our guard here, because whenever we feel angry, and vent our anger on someone, it is so easy to justify our angry feelings by saying, "God wanted to use me to teach you a lesson."It more often than not, if we examine our hearts we will find that our goal was not the will of God but the desire to get those angry feelings out from inside us. Selective expression of feelings is a mature and spiritual response; indiscrimate expression is immature and unspiritual. </p><p class="center-it italic bold mlr40 mtb20">Gracious God and loving heavenly Father, forgive me for the times I have hurt others by the indiscriminate expression of my negative feelings. Help me understand and apply this principle of "selective expression" In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p><div class="tl-lightgrey mt20 pt20 flexbox-row-wrap jc-around"><div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">AdditionalVerses</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="eph+4:15">Ephesians 4:15</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="pr+16:32">Proverbs 16:32</span></li><li><span class="scriptRef" ref="2pe+1:3-7">2 Peter 1:3-7</span></li></ul></div>

<div><div class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold center-it">Questions to Consider</div><ul style="margin-top:0px"><li>What is to govern our sharing?</li><li>Why are we to be self-controlled?</li></ul></div></div>

Let a little light into your soul every day with this wonderful devotional from English pastor Selwyn Hughes.

Every Day Light with Selwyn Hughes

"But the fruit of the Spirit is  self-control." (vv. 22-23) 

<p><span class="fs-17 fg-mustard bold">For Reading and Meditation: </span><span class="italic"><span class="scriptRef">1 Corinthians 9:15-27</span></span></p>
<p>We continue meditating on the idea that everything we do represents a goal. In fact, most of the frustration we experience in life comes from wrong goals and blocks to those goals. Let me illustrate. Cast your mind back to the last time you were angry. If you can identify your goal and what blocked your goal, then you have the clue to what produced your anger and frustration.</p>
<p>A man once asked me if I could explain what caused his deep-seated anger. It soon became apparent that his anger was due to a blocked goal. His goal in life was to make money. He reasoned: "If I can make plenty of money, then everyone will see that I am a successful and important person." When he encountered blocks to this goal, such as his wife's insistence that he cut down on the amount of time he was spending in his business, he would erupt in anger.</p>
<p>I pointed out that the way to deal with the anger was to establish a goal that no-one could block. And what was that? To please the Lord. He resisted that idea at first, but when he came to realize that his goal in life was unbiblical and that his anger resulted from others blocking his unbiblical goal, he made a new commitment to God and found happiness and release. From then on his goal was not to make money, but to please the Lord.</p>
<p>I has to point out that there is nothing wrong with wanting to make money - it is a legitimate human desire - but it must remain a desire and never become a goal.</p>
<p class="mlr40 mtb20"><strong>Prayer:</strong> O God my gracious Father, help me never to turn what can be a legitimate human desire into a life goal. Save me from pursuing unbiblical objectives, and guide me toward the truth which alone can make me free. In Jesus' Name. Amen.</p>
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<div class="fs-17 fg-mustard"><strong>Additional Verses</strong></div>
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<li><span class="scriptRef">James 1:9-20</span></li>
<li><span class="scriptRef">Psalm 37:8</span></li>
<li><span class="scriptRef">Proverbs 14:17</span></li>
<li><span class="scriptRef">Proverbs 16:32</span></li>
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<div class="fs-17 fg-mustard"><strong>Questions to Consider</strong></div>
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<li>What does an impatient man do?</li>
<li>Who will 'take the city'?</li>
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Run in Such A Way As To Get The Price -  1 Corinthians 9:15-27

<p>My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. § He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. § If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body. § For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. § Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.<br><br>Christ… suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: “who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth”; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously. § Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.<br><br>In their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without fault before the throne of God.</p>

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise. 

<p><span class="bible-text "> <sup class="verse-num poetry-line">32 </sup><poetry>Better a patient person than a warrior,<br/><indent>one with self-control than one who takes a city.</indent><span class="pb"></span><poetry></poetry> </span></p>

Better a patient person than a warrior,<br/><indent>one with self-control than one who takes a city.</indent><pb/><poetry>

Proverbs 16:32

 32 Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. 

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 Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city. 

<p><span class="bible-text "><poetry>Better a patient person than a warrior,<br/><indent>one with self-control than one who takes a city.</indent><span class="pb"></span><poetry></poetry> </span></p>

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