Don't Curse Your Life
Today I ask heaven and earth to be witnesses. I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses. Now, choose life! Then you and your children may live. Deuteronomy 30:19 (New Century Version, NCV)
We can choose a life of blessing or a life of curses. We know this, but so often, we curse our own lives by the words we speak over them. Have you ever said any of the following statements, or statements that are similar?
“ I hate this job.”
“I don’t like this house; it’s too much work.”
“Sometimes I wish I was single again.”
These don’t sound like curses, but they are. We are speaking against the very things God has placed in our lives. When you started the job you now hate, you were glad to get it. But, now it is a burden and something you detest. At one time, you were excited to get the house or apartment you live in, but you’ve forgotten how blessed you are to have a roof over your head. The spouse who gets on your nerves looked really good when you stood next to them at the altar and pledged to love them for better or worse.
The word curse in the original language means to speak evil of. When we speak negatively about something or someone we are cursing them. We may consider such statements to just be complaints, but a complaint is speaking against something or someone, so it is a curse. That’s one of the reasons God does not like murmuring and complaining. Therefore, when we speak against the very things God has done for us, we are cursing our lives. When we fail to appreciate what we have, we can be sure we will not receive more.
When we continue in an attitude of thanksgiving, we have more joy and contentment in the situation we are in, and we can look forward to even better things to come. God wants us blessed, not cursed. Choose words of blessing, and don’t curse your life.
