Guarding What We Say to Ourselves & Others (TMF:1134)

Thursday, May 23, 2019
Peace to Live By: Guarding What We Say to Ourselves & Others (TMF:1134) - Daniel Litton
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       To put it another way, the Apostle Peter said, quoting Psalm 34, “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit” (ESV). So, according to Peter, the way we guard our lives, the way we find that we love our lives and see good times, is when we guard what we say. And notice that the psalmist does not exclude this to watching what we say just when we are speaking to other people. He doesn’t limit it to that. This includes everything we say, even when we speak just to ourselves. The Lord Jesus Christ, in John chapter 6, stated the following: ““It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life"" (John 6:63, 64, ESV). We should all be aware, and I think many of us are, that it’s the Holy Spirit who has given us our new life as a Christian. He has made us new creations in Christ. Nothing good came out of our flesh, as Jesus tells us.