Hey everyone it's Leslie Lutie, host of the Set-A-Part-Grel podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to look at the power of personal discipline.

Now maybe even by the title you weren't sure if you really wanted to tune into this episode because the subject of

personal discipline to a lot of us sounds about as exciting as maybe a scientific

discussion on the history of dust. It just sounds dry and boring and sort of outdated and miserable. The word

discipline often conjures up images of legalism and lists of rules and regulations and most of us want to

run screaming the other direction when it comes to things like that. I have been

around homeschool circles for much of my life and I remember going to a homeschool

conference one time where pretty much all of the women had these really

tight buns in their hair and they had even tighter expressions on their face.

They never seemed to smile. Now they had a lot of personal

discipline in their lives and in their family. Their children seemed very well behaved in orderly,

kind of marching quietly somberly along behind them in nice straight rows and it was just

Really sad to watch because you saw these families who the women you know, had their homes under control, their homes

seem to run like clockwork, they were homeschooling their children, their children

were very dutiful, very obedient, but everyone that I observed there was completely lacking in the

joy of the Lord or the life of Christ or really any kind of joy for that

matter and I wanted to get up and just sort of yell out

hey guys don't you claim to know Jesus why are you acting like you're at a

funeral this this lifestyle of following Christ and being set apart for him. It doesn't need to

drain the life out of you. Why don't you try smiling? But I didn't do that. I don't know

how that would have gone over at that conference, but it was something I thought

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