The Good Life: Pursuing Peace

In 1 Peter 3:10-11, Peter talks about living the good life. He is quoting from Psalm 34 which was written by David. At that time King Saul was trying to kill David. But David said that if you want to know the good life you have to keep your tongue from evil and your lips from deceitful speech. You have to turn from evil and do good. You must seek peace and pursue it.

That’s exactly what David did. He never spoke evil of Saul. He never did evil to Saul. In fact, there were a couple of opportunities for David to kill Saul and even though he would have been justified in doing so, he refused to do it. David tried every way he could to seek peace with Saul.

By nurturing hatred and bitterness towards those who are opposed to us, we are not going to know the good life. We must pursue peace.