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"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom"

Psalm 90:12

"Numbered Days" is the title in the devotional (Walk with God, Chris Tiegreen) that I read this morning. These thoughts are worth of meditating on.

We think that we are invincible...that God who created us for eternity put in us the thought that we will be around forever and that our time is endless. Our time on earth and our time on the next earth overlap, but only in that we can bear fruit for the other. What we do today can have ever lasting consequences.

So how do we spend our days? Survival mode? Entertainment mode? Work mode? Do we balance our pursuits with concerns that the eternal fruits matter more? Do we realize that the time to plant is short?

Today the flower blooms. Tomorrow it is gone. So it is with our lives. Each allocated his length of days.

God has given us an awesome privilege. We can accomplish in that moment works of such significance that they will last forever. God can change people's lives through us. He can shape our children and our spouses and our friends through us.

Do we teach our children wisely putting in their hearts a hunger for their God? Do we teach them to pursue God's kingdom or temporal things? Do we teach them to use their time wisely and create Godly habits? Not nearly enough.

Do we speak with our friends and encourage them and glorify our God with our words? Not nearly enough.

He can feed the hungry, encourage the outcast, redeem the lost, heal the sick, cultivate worshipers and build His Kingdom through us. But only if we are wise and have numbered our days.

These are fleeting days, slipping by us before we've hardly noticed. we must number them. we must live with an eye on the limitations of time and the certainty of death. Wisdom fills the hearts of those who can live with such perspective.

How will I use my time today? It is not mine to squander.