This last week on my journey towards eldership I have been lacking in self control. I said this a few weeks ago on week 9, and I will say it again because I feel it is needed. I feel I needed to stretch myself by allowing myself to go out of my comfort zone, but I didn’t do much of that. This week I lied to stay in my comfort zone which truth is something I have held sacred and this was a breach of trust with others and I and was sad. This all clearly shows an issue with self control. I need to have self control to push myself out of my comfort zone when needed and to keep myself from lying. Additionally, 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. – Something I said and still said by from week 9