There will be discipline. It is inescapable. The question is whether you will take responsibility to do it yourself or if you will force someone else to do it for you.
Proverbs 25:28
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
If you refuse to discipline yourself and reject the discipline that is imposed upon you by those who love you, you will be disciplined by the consequences of trying to live without discipline. A city without walls is vulnerable. It is disciplined by the consequences of refusing to construct and/or man it's walls. If you want to be free from vulnerability, you cannot be free of walls. If you want the freedom of security, you need to erect walls of discipline and have means to defend and watch over them.
Song of Solomon 2:15
Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom
A fenced garden is free from foxes, an unfenced one is free for the taking.
The fenced garden has a defense, the unfenced one is left defenseless.
Titus 2:1-6
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Self-control is sound doctrine. Those who have it, teach it. Those who need it must be taught it. Those who will not accept or exercise it are not free to call themselves Christian.
"Discipline equals freedom." -- Jocko Wilink
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