1. Keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from lying.: Psalm 34:12,13 and 1Peter 3:10 tells us that the first requirement for us to live the full length of our days is in relation to the way we use our tongue. We have to stop speaking evils like gossips, slandering, cursing and lying....CONTINUE READING
2. Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace, pursue it and work to mentain it.
The second requirement in Psalm 34:14, 1Peter 3:11 turning from evil, running from places you will be tempted to do evil, and doing good, i.e. looking for opportunities to do good and also seeking peace with everyone including those who hate us and always seeking each moment to be at peace with everyone as far as it lies with us.
3. Fearing God.
Proverbs 10:27 says that the fear of God prolongs life. Fearing God means fearing to do anything or say or even keep in heart or mind that will grieve or hurt God.
4. Honouring parents.
Deuteronomy 5:16 tells us that if we want that it may go well with our lives and that we may live the full length of out days, we must honor our parents. This unfortunately is something that is taken lightly today and that is why we have parents burying their children instead of children burying their parents.
5. Letting the heart keep the God’s commitments.
Provabs 3:1,2 tells us that if we want long life we have to keep the commandments from the heart. This is a deeper way of keeping the commandment, it includes delighting in obeying God. If we delight in obeying God, we will reach the full length of our days.
6. Getting wisdom.
Proverbs 3:15,16 tells that wisdom offers us long life. The seven characteristics of wisdom in James 3:17 are; Purity, Peaceable, Gentle, Willing to yield, full of mercy and good deeds without partiality and Sincere (without hypocrisy). Let us seek with all our hearts this wisdom.
If we seek with all our hearts to live as seen above, we need never fear that we can die prematurely. We can boldly say “I AM IMMORTAL UNTIL MY LIFES WORK IS EENDED. GOD WILL PRESERVE AND KEEP ME FROM ALL EVIL”
