Me and Self

I live with my beautiful bride, Judy, and a cranky old man named My Self. Sometimes, when I rise early for my 45-minute walk, Self tells me, “You can’t go out and walk today. Your knee hurts.” “Well, we’re going out anyway,” I reply. “I’m just trying to say your right knee is going to be weak,” Self says. “You might fall.” Self knows how I hate falling down. “Be that as it may,” says I, “we’re going. Self doesn’t like to exercise, though he always feels better after it. Self also likes to eat foods that are bad for us, and he would like to engage in conduct that is just plain wrong. So, we have a lot of arguments. Listing the fruit of the Spirit, the apostle Paul included self-control in Galatians 5:23. In the next verse he wrote, “Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified…