COMMAND OVER SELF

Are you your own Boss??!

When I first decided to start a blog, "Command over self" was one of the first things I wanted to write about, but now that I actually have the chance I am lost for words. So here it goes; the instant I heard the phrase “command over self” my first thoughts were mhmm, what does that mean??

I pondered on this phrase for quite a while and I soon realized that everything starts and ends with the level of command over self. What is command over self you say: my definition of command over self would go something like this, the willpower and the authority that one has over one self; Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control (Proverbs 25:28). In other words it also means ones self-control.  

Whenever I hear this phrase I sometimes wonder to myself what is my level of command over self and I always think back to the winter mornings over the last three years, when I used to skip morning lectures because I couldn’t get out of bed even though I would promise myself every night to never skip a lecture again. Mornings like those proved to me I had no command over self when it came to sleeping. I can testify that I felt as though I had killed a man, every time I would wake up only to realize that I had skipped yet another lecture or more just because I couldn’t get myself out of bed ("Treacherous body!"). 

You cannot even imagine the amount of guilt I felt, how it would eat away on me every single time I failed a test, it was unbearable. I truly felt like a murderer, in fact I was a murderer but a murderer of my own dreams. I never want to be a murderer or at least I never want to feel like one ever again. 

The application of command over self-demands discipline, you must learn to practice self-control by disciplining yourself, there is absolutely no argument that every single one of us has been given a portion of self-control it all depends on us to wield it. Unfortunately failure is inevitable but don’t let one mishap put you out of your game, practice, practice until you have complete control over that bad habit, that gossip hungry tongue and that commitment you made. A man that can effectively rule himself can rule the whole world. Be your own ruler before you rule the world!!

TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF

A New beginning

So as a new year resolution I promised myself I would start blogging and I don't know how far along into the year this will go or if anyone would even like it. But I don't really care I am doing this for me. I actually promised myself a lot of things like how I am going to join a boot camp or how I am going to start writing my first novel. I have started with like eight novels but all of them just end at chapter one, that is as far as my creativity goes.

Do you ever wonder how some people are more passionate than you but you just can’t seem to find anything that you are so much passionate about and even when you get passionate about something it only last for a season. I wonder if they have a name for someone who has passion syndrome (LOL. I just made that up). Passion syndrome is someone who lacks in passion for absolutely everything, they don't have a single thing they are passionate about. They are not passionate about life, love or dreams, nothing, null, void, empty. They are just floating through life like a lifeless fish. I haven’t actually seen a lifeless fish and I don’t even know if it float.

In any case if you are indeed floating through life like a lifeless fish, year in and year out with no will no purpose to live for, in my opinion you are no better than that drug addict and alcohol addict that are going through life in a trance of substance abuse. You need to get up and get out, live a little! Find something that you are passionate about, something that makes your heart skip a beat, something that takes your breath away. 

Forget about your past, you cannot change it, forgive the people that have hurt you they probably don’t even wallow in guilt the way you do in your sorrow. Sing, dance and love; the pain will fade away. Otherwise if you are just too lazy to care, well get over yourself you only have one life to live.

If you find yourself with no direction in life and you have nothing to live for and you don’t know what to do with your life. What better place but to discover what you are looking for from your maker! At the foot of the cross, from the one who once said "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”(John 14:6) A new year, a new beginning but only one way.