For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good–whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). 1 Peter 3:10. (AMPC)
The Lord wants us to enjoy life and see or experience good days and so He tells us how.
Thank God it doesn’t take striving, sweating and doing a lot of hard things in order to enjoy life and experience good days.
It takes one of the smallest members in our body to enjoy life. That is it takes the tongue to enjoy life. It takes the simplest decision to enjoy life. That is it takes the decision of keeping our tongue from evil to enjoy life. It takes the easiest action to enjoy life. That is it takes our tongue speaking life in order to enjoy life.
Proverbs 18:21 (NIV) The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Everything comes from words. God created all things with His Word. Everything is sustained by words. God sustains all creation by His Word.
The power of life is in our tongue. This is so because the words of life are in our tongue. As the tongue speaks words of life, the power in those words is released to operate and dominate in us and every area that concerns us.
Instead of using your tongue to speak evil, change and speak life. The enemy has corrupted many people’s language to the point that they talk death all the time. Someone says ‘I’m sick and tired of this” “I’m dying to get there” “I’m scared to death” Then there’s the “I can’t, it’s impossible, I’m not able, I don’t have”.
The Israelites in the wilderness continually released death with their tongue as they kept on saying “we are not able to enter the Promised Land”.
Numbers 13:31 (NKJV) But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they [are] stronger than we.”
They all cried out complaining that if only they had died in Egypt or the wilderness instead of dying by the sword in that land and their wives and children being carried off as plunder. –See Numbers 14:1-3.
But Caleb and Joshua said “we are well able to overcome, take and possess the land for the Lord is with us”. Numbers 13:30; 14:6-9.
Those who said they were not able never entered the promised land. The death they spoke with their tongue overtook and consumed them in the wilderness.
Caleb and Joshua, who said they were well able, lived to see their words come to pass. They possessed the Promised Land and lived long in it enjoying all that they’d spoken with their tongue.