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  DISCIPLINE OF OUR TIME
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: To live a life of purpose and productivity, we must cultivate
discipline, punctuality, and self-control.

Topics: "Christian Discipline", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Proverbs 6:6, Ecclesiastes 9:10, 1 Corinthians 9:26, Ephesians 5:15, Colossians 3:23

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of discipline and
punctuality in the Christian life, highlighting the need to run the race
of faith with certainty and purpose, to fight spiritual battles with
intentionality, and to bring our bodies under subjection through self-
discipline. She encourages believers to redeem the time by avoiding
procrastination, dawdling, and distractions that hinder spiritual growth
and holiness, and instead, to cultivate habits of diligence,
punctuality, and readiness for God's work.

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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that
beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.

1 CORINTHIANS 9:26,27

THE slack, indolent temperament, disposed to self indulgence and delay,
will find a very practical and helpful discipline in strict punctuality,
a fixed habit of rising to the minute, when once a time is settled on;
in being always ready for meals, or the various daily matters in which
our unpunctuality makes others uncomfortable. Persons have found their
whole spiritual life helped and strengthened by steadfastly conquering a
habit of dawdling, or of reading newspapers and desultory bits of books,
when they ought to be settling about some duty.

H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

Let us "redeem the time." Desultory working, fitful planning, irregular
reading, ill-assorted hours, perfunctory or unpunctual execution of
business, hurry and bustle, loitering and unreadiness,--these, and such
like, are the things which take out the whole pith and power from life,
which hinder holiness, and which cat like a canker into our moral being.

HORATIUS BONAR

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