How do you run the Christian life with temperance?

Les explains that running the Christian life with temperance means maintaining a balance, not going clear off to the right or clear off to the left. In verse 25, everyone who strives for the mastery is to be temperate in all things, because the goal is to be first, to be the winner. Temperance means you maintain a middle balance. Les uses examples: in disciplining children, over-discipline produces rebels and under-discipline also produces rebels, so a middle-of-the-road temperate idea of discipline is needed. In business, a man covered up with inventory he cannot locate will not last long, and a man whose shelves are bare and must order everything will not last long either. So the same principle applies to the Christian life: do not go off the deep end to the right or left, but maintain that balance, being temperate in all things.