Christ-Control
Ultimately, our controlling ourselves is about being controlled by Christ. When “the love of Christ controls us” (2 Corinthians 5:14). Christian self-control is not finally about bringing our bodily passions under our own control, but under the control of Christ by the power of his Spirit.
Because self-control is a gift, produced in and through us by God’s Spirit, Christians can and should be the people on the planet most hopeful about growing in self-control. We are, after all, brothers of the most self-controlled man in the history of the world.
All his life he was “without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
In Jesus, we have a source for true self-control far beyond that of our feeble selves.
“Christians can be the people on the planet most hopeful about growing in self-control.”
