Number Our Days

https://odb.org/MY/2022/09/27/gods-help-for-our-future

Psalm 90:12 teaches: “Number our days so we may gain a heart of wisdom” while Psalm 90:19 prays that, “May the favour of the Lord our God establish the work of our hands.”

As we have previously shared in these pages, the wisdom of the Old Testament, of the Psalms and Proverbs, is often centred on knowing the Lord our God. Thus to gain a heart of wisdom speaks of being wise in our thoughts and actions and that basically means to know God and to keep His laws and percepts. But to achieve that, Psalm 90:12 teaches us to number our days and to me that, in essence, means we need to be fully aware and cognisant that we are not and will not be here on earth for eternity. With Jesus in our lives, we will live on for eternity even though we will die but our time on earth, in this physical realm is always numbered. There is a fixed period of time. Not just a question of old age; as we are all well aware that many have passed on younger for various reasons. Thus to number our days means we need to realise we have a limited time here and that also means that we need to do what’s essential and important first. We are after all pilgrims passing through this temporary abode.

Peter Tsukahira once taught that in the end what’s key for our existence here is God’s plans and purposes for our lives. We exist for a purpose that was pre-planned even before the foundations of the earth were made. God fearfully and wonderfully made each and every one of us (Psalm 139:14). We are all uniquely created in His image for His plans and purposes.

Therefore always seek the Lord on what are His plans and purposes for us? What is the raison d’etre for our being here on earth? Even as life may be a struggle at times with its storms and turmoil, seek God’s wisdom for our lives. Know His sovereign and specific will for us.

And as we go out there in the world and claim our inheritance in Christ and do the things Christ and the Father have appointed us to do, we pray that may the Lord our God establish the work of our hands. May the favour of God be upon us to establish the work of our hands. We sow, we serve, we minister but God establishes and reaps. He will make our work come to life, to blossom and bloom. We do our part to be the hands and legs of the Almighty One, the Sovereign God of Israel. May the favour of God indeed be with us to establish our ways and the work of our hands!