Saying Good Things Gives Us a Good Life (TMF:1133)

Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Peace to Live By: Saying Good Things Gives Us a Good Life (TMF:1133) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s start by looking at a couple verses of Scripture from Proverbs chapter 18. If we go over there, we read, “From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits” (vv. 20, 21). Now, these verses tell us some powerful things. First, we read that our lives will be satisfied, that is, we will be happy with our lives and have our heart’s desires met, by bearing good fruit from our mouths. That’s pretty interesting. Good fruit comes from good words? Very interesting. The verse goes further though. Again, it says, “he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.” That means if we want to be satisfied with our lives, we need to have a good yield, a good crop, from the things we speak. 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.