Saying Bad Leads to Bad in Our Lives (TMF:1148)

Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Peace to Live By: Saying Bad Leads to Bad in Our Lives (TMF:1148) - Daniel Litton
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       Solomon said in the next chapter over, ““Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good” (Proverbs 13:21, ESV). Again, if we are sinning with our mouths, being like a sinner, a person who doesn’t know God, we are calling for disaster in our lives—negative things. But, as we are righteous, called by God and justified by him, we should be speaking good things into our lives, which calls for good, and therefore we are rewarded with good things. When things aren’t going like we want them to, we use our ‘faith’ to say something good and then our ‘hope’ to believe that the good we have spoken will in fact come to pass in the future. This is critical. Often we don’t feel like saying good things, but we shouldn’t live by our negative feelings, just saying what our negative feelings want us to say. We have to use our faith to say good things anyway and then hope to believe better is coming for us in the near future. Our mouths release life to us both in the good times and in the harder times. Our words can make us feel emotionally up, or feel emotionally down.