1. Never consider yourself above temptation
2. Keep a close watch on our spiritual temptation
3. Maintain your marriage
4. Develop healthy outlets for emotional and sexual energy
5. Guard your mind
6. Remind ourself regularly of the consequence of moral failure
7. Take neccesary precaution to protect yourself

Point 3 is not applicable cos im not married yet. haha. Maybe can apply next time. What struck me hard was point 5 and 6. Not that i have any sexual thots or whatsoever, but im someone who tend to think alot. To guard our mind means that to control the things that u choose to allow your mind to dwell on. If i keep dwelling on the past, on the mistakes tt i've made, the relationship tt i once had, I will NEVER grow. And the battle always begins in the mind. Everythings starts from the mind. If we keep thinking abt useless stuff, at the end of the day, we'll achieve nothing. Why not use your time to think of things that are beneficial in the long run??

Prepare your mind for action, be self controlled. [l pet 1:13]

And i learnt something new, here it goes: in the US treasury, bankers handle money everyday. They touch it everyday, know how it looks like etc. They are sooo familiar with the notes that once a counterfeit comes by, the banker will know immediately. Similarly, when we are convicted with the truth, we need not know about what is false/evil. When we are wise about what is good, we do not need to know what is bad.

As for point 6, I learnt about minimising pleasure, maximazing consequences. Truth is, we wun be tempted with something that are unattractive. Sin, is attractive. But when it is finished, it brings forth death. That's the consequence of sin. Which scares many people. Including me. And when I sin, I'll grieve God, lose my credibility, my close friends, my self respect and many others. When I think of the consequences, It'll somehow stop me from sinning. And i do not want to have a hardened heart, that's why when im in the midst of conscious sinning, I can suddenly be afraid, a sudden kind of guilt will sweep past me and I know that i sin again. Repentance after repentance, conviction after conviction. When will I grow out of it?

Its hard to be a leader, saying goes: much is given, much is expected. Many things are permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Choose to forgo certain rights that we have for the sake of our people so that we wun be discredited for our actions.

My food for thought for the night. Still thinking of my conviction I will hold dearly to. 3 powerful motivation:

1. what you desire
2. what you love
3. what you stand to lose

Basically are the things that you are willing to die for which people work hard for to achieve it. okok. daniel asking me to sleep. Will update again soon!