This week on my journey towards eldership I have been lacking in having a focus. I wasn’t sure what to put down here for this week, and I think that is because I haven’t grown much spiritually this week. I needed to stretch myself by allowing myself to go out of my comfort zone, but I didn’t do much of that. This clearly shows an issue with self control. I need to have self control to push myself out of my comfort zone when needed. Having self control is a clear trait of on elder as seen in 1 Timothy 3:2:

“Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,” – 1 Timothy 3:2 NIV

I used to idolize comfort and my fleshly nature still has issues with that from time to time, but that cannot be allowed to influence my day-to-day actions at all. I need to reorient my focus towards God and keep it only on him.