Can you be your own enabler?

If you think you’re an enabler to someone, you should check out God! Without a doubt, God is the greatest enabler ever!

But in a vastly different way than we are.

We tend to enable people to stay in their addictions, brokenness, and sins. God enables us to overcome all those things.

Are you ruled by fear? God enables you to be courageous.

Are you wracked with worry? God enables you to have peace, faith, and confidence.

Just take a look at this …

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline,” 2 Timothy 1:7.

God enables us to have all the power we need to live fully, freely, and victoriously. God enables us to love others and to be lovable. But notice, He also enables us to have direct outcomes on our own lives by applying self-discipline.

By enabling us to be able to exercise self-discipline, God helps us to stop negatively enabling ourselves.

Are you crippling your health with bad nutrition habits and laziness? Apply a little self-discipline and you can avoid those negative outcomes.

Are you hurting relationships with selfishness, judgements, or apathy? Apply a little self-discipline and you can avoid those negative outcomes.

When you enable yourself by applying the capacity for self-discipline God has equipped you with, you maximize and magnify the other attributes God has enabled within you.

How are you enabling yourself: to your detriment, or by exercising self-discipline?

Scotty