November 16
Psalms 34:11-13 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD. (12) What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? (13) Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Is this not the heart cry of the souls of this generation, the desire for a happy long life that sees ‘good’? ? Do not many people spend their substance on physicians for it? Is it not the yearning heard in many heart touching songs, poems and stories?
It seems to be a secret that none can find; a treasure bound in the spiritual caves of the earth. While some look for it in foul darkness, others cover it with the discouraged cloak of cynicism. Yet, the worst are those who cowardly run from it.
The psalmist-prophet tells us that keeping our tongues from evil and our lips from speaking guile are the keys leading to the secret of an abundant happy life.
If we are ardently looking for the abundant life promised by the Savior (John 10:10), do we also have the courage to learn about the evil our tongue unleashes? Do we have the strength to face the guile our lips utter? Oh, but to realize that these are the things that keep away from us this life abundant. Let’s not run from their realities; let’s not cover them with an air of foolishness, but face them with the power and might of the Holy Spirit that God has promised to give us (Luke 11:13) to teach us is ways.
Psalms 19:12-13 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
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