Many people have failed to control their emotions and this is responsible for the total turn upside of the whole setup of the community and it is through this that community gets in captivity inform of crime and complete social change and unless the mindsets of people are changed, there is no one who can survive the sword of the enemy through that kind of mind control. This element of poor controlling of the mind has been there since the beginning and we all know that there is nothing new under the sun.
Why call upon people to have a change of mind about certain things especially when it comes to self control? The reason is because many people tend to thing only about themselves putting a side other virtues of life and yet these are the major thing which lead to self maturity. Some people judge maturity by body size but that is a wrong concept and people should absolutely deviate away from such mindsets. Self control basically means how we carry ourselves especially in situations of serious and devastating circumstances and that is where many of us have to be uplifted into another realm of knowing ourself.
Self control is one thing which even the bible talks about when it teaches us to guard our hearts and through this this concept arise because unless we learn these things, there is no people in our minds due to absence of self control. Many children cry because of their level of maturity and how they perceive things but for us as Christians, we ought to handle these things in the most legitimate and precise way.
Self control is the best way to test the understanding and physical emotions of human beings when it comes to certain prevailing situations like anger and thats what arise and pulls something out from an individual and that dictates on how those people will react in such circumstances. When united with the inner person especially the soul and the body, this where conflicting loyalty comes in unlike for a spiritual person who will get a conviction from the Holly Spirit that what they are about to do is a bad thing.
Finally the power of the tongue is another which shows self control and this dependent on how some one brings out his words and how they communicate in certain scenario and that is clearly seen from the tone which people use and it is from that self control is actually picked and imparted onto a person.