For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed. (Malachi 3:6 ESV)
God’s Self-Control
If I were God, I do not think I would be so gentle with me, so patient with me, so loving of me. Through my life I have been unfaithful, unrighteous, and unworthy.
Yet He has not consumed me.
More than that, He has blessed me, blessed me, and blessed me.
Even though it is odd to think of God having self-control, it seems to me that His mercy and grace towards sinners displays exactly that.
He is under no one else’s authority. In Job 40:6 through 41:34, God demonstrates that God is GOD. No one else controls Him. He controls everything.
In that sense, He has the most self-control of all!
And His self-control is what enables the universe to exist, and His people to be safe in Him.
God Himself is the gift of self-control.