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Teach me to number my days7/13/2023 ![]() Lord help me to spend the days, the moments I have to be a blessing to others and to be a pleasing child in your site. ![]() So I pray Lord help me to number my day so I can gain a heart of wisdom. We can redeem days that pass like a dream The words of a Marty Goetz song, he sings. However, Statistically a person will spend - 23 years of those years sleeping, 16 years working, 8 years watching the TV, 6 years eating, 4.5 in leisure, 2 years dressing that's 59.5 years = 21717.5 Days this means I have 1824.50 days left or about 4.9 years of productive time or 42,924 hours wow that really not much time. Psalm 90 Sermon - 'So Teach Us to Number Our Days' - Wednesday Evening 10-30-2019Pastor Addison SmithAudio Starts at 1:15Psalm 90 might just. Well, that sounds like a lot of time left, yea. That gives me a total of 7482 days left to give or take a few days. I took my age multiplied it by 365, then subtracting the 27,375 days. So I looked up how to calculate how many days I have left. My days are few so help me to number my days. ![]() Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.”Īnother Monday, another week and it's easy for me to look at the calendar and begin to get a little anxious, meetings and events I need to be at lots of responsibilities, and yet I keep hearing this verse in my heart. ![]() To consider our latter end, and what will become of us hereafter which is a branch of wisdom so to do to seek the way of salvation by Christ to seek to Christ, the wisdom of God, for it to fear the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom and to walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise to all which an application of the heart is necessary for wisdom is to be sought for heartily, and with the whole heart: and to this divine teachings are requisite, as well as to number our days for unless a man is taught of God, and by his Spirit convinced of sin, righteousness, and judgment, he will never be concerned, in good earnest, about a future state nor inquire the way of salvation, nor heartily apply to Christ for it: he may number his days, and consider the shortness of them, and apply his heart to folly, and not wisdom see ( Isaiah 22:21 ). That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom It means knowing that we only have so many days on this earth, and therefore we want to seize the day, living each day to the fullest. Teach me to number my days Teach me to walk in Your ways Even when I doubt, Ill praise You Even when I doubt, Ill praise You (and a hundred times) And a hundred times I fall and a hundred. Numbering our days means, as the NLT indicates, realizing the brevity of life. Not merely to count them, how many they are, in an arithmetical way there is no need of divine teachings for that some few instructions from an arithmetician, and a moderate skill in arithmetic, will enable persons not only to count the years of their lives, but even how many days they have lived: nor is this to be understood of calculating or reckoning of time to come no man can count the number of days he has to live the number of his days, months, and years, is with the Lord but is hid from him: the living know they shall die but know not how long they shall live, and when they shall die: this the Lord teaches not, nor should we be solicitous to know: but rather the meaning of the petition is, that God would teach us to number our days, as if the present one was the last for we cannot boast of tomorrow we know not but this day, or night, our souls may be required of us: but the sense is, that God would teach us seriously to meditate on, and consider of, the shortness of our days that they are but as a shadow, and there is no abiding and the vanity and sinfulness of them, that so we may not desire to live here always and the troubles and sorrows of them, which may serve to wean us from the world, and to observe how unprofitably we have spent them which may put us upon redeeming time, and also to take notice of the goodness of God, that has followed us all our days, which may lead us to repentance, and engage us in the fear of God: It’s not the ability to count how many days we have lived or to predict how many days we have left.
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