We Can Learn Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: We Can Learn ------------------- Date: 12/9/2002 Keywords: "discipline" "Holy Spirit" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 2 Timothy 1:7* For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline. Questions 1. In your struggle with porn, how are you doing with self-discipline?   2. Who would you consider the greatest teacher?   Practical help Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. — C. J. Smith.1 Sometimes a struggle with porn leaves us feeling like an old dog — never able to learn new tricks to beat the bad habit. "Why can't I muster enough self-discipline to give porn the heave-ho?," you may wonder. The only problem with self-discipline is the source. Often we're either too proud or too ashamed to admit we need a new teacher. Well, if you've trusted Jesus Christ as savior (click here, if you're not sure you have) then you've already got a new teacher — the Holy Spirit. One of the many things the Holy Spirit does for us is to become a ready replacement for self-discipline. Where our self-discipline falters the Holy Spirit's teaching and leading can succeed. But we must be willing to listen, and be taught. Are you? 1 Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission." ---