This week on my journey towards eldership I have been fighting my sin nature for self control. As according to Titus 1:8 an elder needs to have self control:

“Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.” – Titus 1:8 NIV

There is an urge from my sin nature to be lazy that I had let foster and grow throughout my childhood into my young adult years. I just recently gave up more habits to Christ based on it from my old life and am now wrestling with my sin nature over control of the productive life I have now. As far as I can tell there is hardly, if any, evidence for it, but it feels as though I have been moving slowly toward becoming more lazy. That might just be paranoia as I am being hyper vigilant with it due to all of this being still fresh, but I do not want to be naive and rule out that those habits are coming back. I would like to talk to my mentors about it on Tuesday.