"Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous?

"Does anyone want to live a life
that is long and prosperous?
Then keep your tongue from speaking evil
and your lips from telling lies!
Turn away from evil and do good.
Search for peace, and work to maintain it."

—Psalm 34:12–14

We all want to live a long and prosperous life but life and death is not in our hands.Here today and gone tomorrow. We can only enjoy life each day at a time. We cannot enjoy the future when it is not here yet.

We may plan for the future and that is all we can do .If we plan too far ahead, we maybe doing a futile exercise.No one knows except God what the future will hold for us. If we worry too much about the future, we are wasting our limited resources which we can use for other more productive uses.

In reality ,not everyone will be prosperous .If everyone is prosperous, then there will be no poor among us. Some will be born with a silver spoon in their mouths and they inherit the riches without working hard for it. There will be some who will find their riches while others will be born a slave to work.

There are two perspective about being prosperous in this world .
Being rich according to this world's standards or being rich according to the religious standards? They are two different things.

The worldly standard is about being rich financially while the Christian standard is about being rich in experience and knowledge and less emphasis on financials.

If you follow the Psalmist, it does not mean that you will be prosperous according to the world's standards. God's standards is not the same as the world's standards.
There are many non Christians which do not follow God's words and yet they are filthy rich.

To be rich in this world, you cannot be truthful and you will have to sleep with the devil to get what you want. You trade your soul with the devil for his riches.

If you work honestly , it will take a lifetime to be rich and only your children will get to enjoy them. To be rich in quick time, you will need to do business with the devil.

If you keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies,
turn away from evil and do good,you will find the peace in your heart.

Getting along well with others is an important part of a good and long life. That is if you don't get a neighbour from hell!