Character is Everything, Part #5

Like a city whose walls are broken down

Proverbs 25:28 28

Freedom is self control.  You may say "no," but don't be so quick to judge.  While many of us have images of self control akin to an athletes pursuit of a marathon or the struggle you have to not buy that oreo blizzard at McDonalds, I can bet that none of you see self control as the gateway to freedom, and I think I may know why.  Freedom to our culture is the absence of restraint not the existence of it.

Practicing Self Control Over Debt Brings Freedom
Proverbs 25:28

As Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789:

"Then I say, the Earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and encumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence." 
We have come along way from this noble advice. 

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