How ironic that we have come to the last of the Fruit of the Spirit, self-control, in a season when we celebrate gluttony or lack of self-control at Thanksgiving! Ha, ha! But self-control is like a muscle we exercise that the more we yield ourselves to God’s loving care, the stronger we become and the more the Holy Spirit cultivates this fruit in our lives. In fact, since the same spirit lives in us that raised Jesus from the dead, we can have power to exercise self-control over all the chaotic forces of the world that try to undo us.