Self-control

My friend Sheryle writes powerfully for Christians in Recovery, out of personal experience with recovery and personal experience with God's help. Here she talks about hard choices. What if the way to recovery is difficult or painful? 

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"You either embrace the pain of discipline or you embrace the pain of regret." The "pain of regret" would be regretting that you didn't embrace the pain of discipline so you could be free.

"A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls," according to the Bible in Proverbs 25:28. He/she is so exposed to injury.