"Does anyone want to live a LIFE THAT IS LONG AND PROSPEROUS? Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies. Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace and work to maintain it."
Most people want to have a LIFE THAT IS LONG AND PROSPEROUS. Although our ultimate goal is to be in heaven in the presence of the Lord, our hope is for a prosperous and long life here on earth. The One Truth Today from the psalms gives us direction on how we can achieve this goal of a long and prosperous life. Basically it reconfirms the idea that as you sew, so shall you reap. It also confirms that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. It reinforces that we should always think on good things and watch our tongue. If you avoid speaking evil of others and telling lies you will naturally turn away from evil and instead do good. We have to work to maintain peace in our lives and we need to continually search for it. The lesson is to be a positive person and avoid being negative. The result of these actions is that we will prosper and live a long life.
To achieve peace in our lives we have to work at it. We must avoid evil and seek righteousness. We must flee from evil and depart from that which displeases God. We alone are responsible for our choices in life. We control our thoughts one at a time and thus we control our actions one at a time. Just as you can not have good and bad fruit from the same tree, you can not have good and bad thoughts from a renewed mind. So the truth put forth today is that ultimately we determine whether we have a life of peace and prosperity. We make that choices that determine the length of our life by our self control. Do you lie has a habit and do you speak evil of others? Do you run to evil or away from it. Are you doing good and seeking righteousness and peace in your life? The promise of God is clear and depends on your direction and choice!
You need to ask yourself, am I prosperous? Am I at peace with myself and the world around me? Do I hold my tongue from speaking evil? Do I tell lies and let my lips determine my fate? Am I a negative person that others avoid and do not want to be around? Do I gossip about others, and kill or injure them with my lips? Do I turn away from evil in what I read and watch? Am I continually searching for peace and ways to please the Lord? Do I work at controlling myself and my tongue? Are my thoughts, words and actions pleasing to the Lord and positive, or are they displeasing to the Lord and negative. As you sew, so shall you reap!
Learn from the Psalms how to have LONG LIFE AND PROSPERITY!
