"...love life, and see good days..." Here Peter is quoting David from the Old Testament. A spiritually healthy Christian loves life, no matter how difficult it may be at times. Certainly, there are brief intervals when the circumstances are such that some would wish to die. Of such were Job, Moses, Elijah, and Jonah. But they soon snapped out of it and changed their minds.
It is the man who sees the world through the natural eye who says, "So I hated life." To such a person, life seems irrational and futile. But the spiritual eye sees that God had a purpose and plan for our inhabiting this planet.
To the child of God who lives by promises rather than explanations, this can be a wonderful life. To be sure, we may not enjoy the prick of the thorns along the way, but the scent of the Rose of Sharon more than makes up for the few hurts we may incur. Just as the woman who travails in birth "remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man child is born," so we forget our sufferings in the presence of the Man, Christ Jesus.
To enjoy life you must first enjoy the Lord.
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