Proverbs 10:27
The fear of
the LORD prolongeth days:
but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.
When we are
more concerned about what God’s desires are for us than anyone else’s we are
walking in the fear of the Lord. The
Lord tells us in this verse that when we are mastered by a concern to please
the Lord only we will have prolonged days.
One angle of this promise is that the stresses and wear and tear of
being controlled by the expectations of others or ourselves won’t be there wearing
at our health and causing us to be on edge resulting in medical conditions
brought on by such anxieties.
Another
side of the fear of the Lord prolonging our days is that we won’t be making
dangerous choices that have the potential for ending our lives early. We won’t be in sexually promiscuous
relationships that carry the threat of disease.
We won’t be taking in alcohol to the injury of our liver. We won’t be controlled by food, starvation or
gluttony, that could wreak havoc on our systems and torment the balance of our
body.
If we want our
days prolonged and not shortened, we need to seek to please the Lord in all we
do and avoid being motivated by any other predominant relationship in our
lives.
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