February 8, 2026 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John (2SoJ)

Becoming the Christian You Always Wanted to Be

It is not easy being the perfect Christian that so many Christians want to be. God loves you, but He seems to have so many rules. We forget that God has lots of things in place that will help us and make this walk with Him doable and exciting, but we must choose daily to follow Him at any cost and without reservation. This can be done if we take some personal action on our part for God to do all the wonderful things He does for us through His love.

The following article comes from a good friend, Timothy Brinkley, whom I found at a Christian university where I was working many years ago. Timothy has a great love for God and uses the love he found in Jesus to impact lives through his ministry and writings. I will be posting his article from his website/blog, Corner Stone Christian Fellowship, in four parts. What impressed me the most was his commitment to make sure it was ‘Spirit-Lead’ and not just something he wanted to write. This article will bless your soul and help you to stay in the love of God while serving Him. Timothy writes:

What Early Christians Knew About-Self-Control that We’ve Forgotten

Authors’ note: This was an attempt to use AI to write something good, but it really came out full of knowledge and not full of the Spirit and power. Even though I, Timothy Brinkley, fed the AI a bunch of Bible-based Christian historical writings, and edited it afterwards, it still does not come across as very Spirit-led. It comes across as people pleasing, trying to impress and sway people with words, and rather tasteless. This is not the kind of writing that I want to be regularly putting out there. I share it with you anyway so you can be a part of this journey, read what that looks like and hopefully in future be able to see what is more Spirit-led. May the Christ-followers out there be like the one who has an ear and is listening to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

The Lost Way of Dying to Self In a world overflowing with distractions, the struggle for self-control has become a defining feature of modern life. We chase focus, download digital productivity apps, and search for the perfect life-hack to master our impulses. Yet, despite our efforts, we often feel more scattered and less in command of our own lives than ever before. As a society, we seem to have misplaced the art of mentoring people in the fundamental skills of self-regulation. We often try to teach our youth with a sit-down-and-shut-up approach, failing to engage in the necessary adult conversations about the responsibilities and challenges of life. We shy away from nurturing critical-thinking on the complex topic of self-control, leaving a void where wisdom needs to be growing. Let us pivot, then, from the noise of the present to the quiet intensity of the ancient world. For the early Christians, self-regulation was not a productivity hack; it was the central drama of a meaningful life, a spiritual contest played out on the stage of the soul. Forged in the fires of persecution and steeped in a radical re-evaluation of the world, their approach to self-control was profound and counter-intuitive. In their ancient wisdom, we may find surprising modern applications for our own lives.

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