NUMBERING
OUR DAYS!
Ps
90:10 & 12
10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of
strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for
it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
The
older we get the more we understand that life is brief and moves very
quickly along. Seventy years seems such a very long time when we are children
and that same seventy years seems such a short span when we are nearing the end
of it. So much has been done and placed into the treasure of memories and so
much has been left undone that we have a store of regret.
Someone
asked George Bernard Shaw this question: “If you could live your life over
and be anyone you wanted to be – who would you choose to be?” The answer came
quickly: “I would choose to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been –
but never was.”
Wisdom
accompanies the numbering of our days. Projects must be prioritized according
to importance. We must resist those things that claim urgency and replace them
with those things that are truly important because we know there is not time to
accomplish both! We must assign urgency to the truly important things.
As
youngsters “strength” was taken for granted. We were young and we could do.
Now our strength requires effort and sorrow. The Old Testament word for
“sorrow” means “to pant with effort.” We wish we hadn’t wasted our strength on
unimportant things.
At
last there is good news! At the very end or our days “we fly away!” The
phrase “and we fly away” is translated from only one small Hebrew word.
The word “‘uwph” even means “to cover with wings;
to shine forth.” Ah, that will be the joyful end when we take flight and shine
forth!
Dear
Lord, help me to wisely apply my heart and my strength to the truly important
things today. Amen
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