Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.

I had knee surgery a few days ago. It was a partial knee replacement. Now I was a little overly optimistic on how my recovery would go. I thought I'd bounce

right back and resume normal routine in a few days.

My wife was what I'd say was overly pessimistic.

Maybe she thought they were cutting off my leg?

I don't know, but neither of us were right.

So a couple nights after the surgery, Christine and I ate dinner together and then she went to a concert with our friends.

I was supposed to go to the concert, but the knee wasn't up for it.

Before propping my leg up and icing my knee and watching football, I grabbed a very large bag of purple skittles that a friend had dropped off for me.

I was going to watch the game and do some email.

Now while doing those things, I ate an obscene amount of purple skittles.

I keep referring to them as purple skittles because I'm a skittled

kind of sewer and the skittles in the purple bag are by far the best. By far, don't come at me with your tropical

skittles. Anyway, was I hungry when I ate those skittles? No, not at all. I just eaten dinner.

Was it good for me to eat that many? Well, of course not. Well, if I wasn't hungry and they weren't

good for me to eat, then why eat any skills at all? Well, because I wanted a treat.

I could have said no, but I didn't. Well, okay, fair enough, we've all been there. But why not just have a few? Maybe a handful. Why go on to gorge myself with skittles to the point of making myself sick?

Well, it's pretty obvious, isn't it?

I lack self-control when it comes to skittles.

And to be frank, I lack self-control and a lot of other areas of my life, too.

Self-control is an indispensable part of a good life.

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