Loose insert #2 “Self restraint or temperance” (Transcribed)

Loose insert #2 “Self restraint or temperance” Transcribed

Self restraint or temperance Romans 14:12-23

This subject is a many sided one & therefore a difficult one to commence on, there are is much that might be said about it, but would it help us to nobler thought & action. Only the practical & simple thoughts live more Christlike lives. This is the object of our Fellowship Union.

Every day we are practising self restraint mor or less, the stronger our love to God is, the easier it will become to curb our desires & endeavour to help others, we are to model our lives, so that another perhaps someone we have never noticed may not stumble, things that we are sure would not hurt us, must be refrained from because of others.

Does our Lord & Master wish that our lives should be hampered & disfigured because someone else may misunderstand us?

We must turn to our Pattern Christ & see what we can learn from Him & we read in Romans 5:3rd “For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.” He went about doing good & He died for doing good & He died that we might live. Christ's life work was to spend & be spent for others & the example He left us to follow is to do good to all & to sacrifice our own.