How To Have a Good Day
Taught at Men’s Breakfast October 5, 2013
Read 1 Peter 3:10-17 (text v. 10)
One of the most often used cliches we hear today is: “Have a good/nice day,” or, “Have a blessed day.” It is said as though the person saying it has the power to make your day good or blessed. I’ve said it or written it thousands of times myself without thinking. We say it because we want to sound “nice.”
People don’t have a “good day” simply by wishing it on someone. If you want to have a “good day,” the Bible tells you how you can have one, that is, if the Lord wants you to have a “good day.” You will have days of trouble, suffering, sadness, and distress, no matter what you do (vs. 14, 17 cf. 2 Kings 19:3; Zeph. 1:15).
Did Job have a “good day” when he lost all his possessions, wealth, and all ten of his children on a single day (cf. Job 9:25)? On the heels of that, he lost his health when he was smitten with boils from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. Even his wife recognized this was not a good day. But Job answered her, “What” shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips” (Job 2:10).
The truth is, God sends or allows calamities and catastrophes to come into our lives (Hag. 1:9–11; Jer. 7:20, 23:19; Nah. 1:3).
Each of us help make the environment we live in (Dt. 33:25). So, Peter gives us five things that go into making for an environment of a “good day.”
I. Your CONVERSATION (v. 10) — “He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile” cf. Ps. 34:12-13).
What you say will have a lot to do with the kind of day you are going to have. Proverbs 21:23—“Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.”
Your conversation with your wife, children, co-workers. “Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have” (Heb. 13:5).
