3 Components of discipline
1. Self control:
“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.” (1Corianthians chapter 9 verses 27)
Self control is an evidence that one has acquired some kinds of discipline. The way one goes about things can tell how much discipline he or she has subjected him or herself to. Just like when you set your eyes on someone who is not discipline and you do not need anyone to tell you he or she is not discipline, so it is with the one who has subjected him or herself through the furnace of discipline. No one who wholeheartedly went through the tunnel of discipline will arrived at the other end the same person. There must some evidence in character to proof he or she went through discipline drill.
2. Self abatement:
19 – “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 – And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 – To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 – To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 – And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.” (1Corianthians chapter 9 verses 19 to 23)
The best kind of leadership is becoming a servant leader. To be a servant leader calls for a price. There are things one cannot accommodate on a normal sense but because he or she have subjected oneself to discipline, it makes one to die to self. Discipline will make one to come to the knowledge that life is not really about individual but life is about impacting the life of others. One’s life is not significant until it starts affecting others positively.
3. Self renunciation:
4 – “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 – And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 – And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 – And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 – For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (2Peter chapter 1 verses 4 to 8)
Denying yourself comfort. Discipline is one attitude, behaviour and reaction to things. Comfort zone is one factor zone that has crippled many destiny. To some persons their comfort zone have built an insurmountable wall around them that they can’t live their true life. You have in your power get rid of your comfort zone at all cost so that you will live the life you were created to live.
