"Be discreet"

Titus 2:3-5-"the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed."


The NIV version says "to be self-controlled". 

Self-control.  Well that sounds simple but as females, that's not always so easy depending on the time of the month. 

Have you ever heard the joke about how we should never have a female president because we would be going to war every 28 days?  Did you laugh or were you offended?  Hopefully you just laughed because it's probably closer to the truth than we females would care to admit.

Self control appears 13 times in the NIV bible (I checked on Biblegateway.com).  I chose this one for us to look at.  

  "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."   2 Peter 1:5-8

That's good advice right there!  There usually is a progression that happens as we seek out God's will for our lives and allow Him to come in and change how we do things.  We start off with a basic faith and then because of that faith we want to do good, and then as we are doing good we seek more knowledge which we can find in the bible and then the next step is to act out what we see in the bible which is self-control God's way and then we progress from there. 

I'd like to point out the difference between God's definition of self control and the worlds. 

The worlds: Well, I tried to find a good definition for self control from the world's viewpoint but apparently they do not have one. There is no sign of self-control anywhere in this world.  God's definition of self control is so vastly different from how the world thinks.  I think Satan did that on purpose.  And it it so easy to fall into Satan's traps of being self involved and self centered that we forget about having self control.

Here's God's:
Proverbs 16:32- Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

Tell me some good examples of Christians showing self control in a situation that would look different from how a non-believer would react.