Teach Us To Count Our Days
That We May Gain A
Wise Heart
Lord,
you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were
brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting
to everlasting you are God.
You turn
us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”For a thousand years in your
sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.
You
sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the
morning; in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades
and withers.
For
we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed. You have set
our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to
an end like a sigh. The days of our life are seventy years, or perhaps eighty,
if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon
gone, and we fly away.
Who
considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is
due you. So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.
Turn,
O LORD! How long? Have compassion on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning
with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make
us glad as many days as your have afflicted us, and as many years as we have
seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power
to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for
us the work of our hands – O prosper the work of our hands!
Psalm 90:1-17
If
you knew you were about to die, would you thank God, or would you blame Him?
Challenge yourself to imagine what you would write in a farewell note, as a
Christian, if you knew you only had hours to live.
A Christlike life is a message
of hope to a searching world.
Our Daily Bread –