TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS

 

WEDNESDAY, 6^TH DECEMBER, 2023.

 

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

Topic:  TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS

 

MEMORIZE: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12

 

SCRIPTURE READING:  Genesis 47:7-9

“And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?  9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

 

EXPOSITION:

"Lord, teach us to number our days (Ps 90:12). Moses prayed this prayer when he considered the futility (vainness) and shortness of life earth. Life that appears like coin with two phases – head and tail. Good to some people and sour or even bitter to others. Being condemned to have our days shortened, it hereby calls for a sanctified use of the sad dispensation we are now under. In other word, we pray, Lord, give us grace duly to consider how few our days are, and how little a while we have to live in this world, so as to fear God and be conscious of doing the right thing right when it is call today."

 

Let us dig deeper into this Scripture by examine these points.

1. It is an excellent art rightly to number our days, so as not to be out in our calculation, like the foolish rich man who was counting upon many years to come when, that night, his soul was to be required of him.  We must live under a constant apprehension of the shortness and uncertainty of life and the near approach of death and eternity. We must so number our days as to compare our work with them, and mind it accordingly with a double diligence, as those that have no time to trifle.

 

2. Those that would learn this arithmetic must pray for divine instruction, must go to God, and beg of him to teach them by his Spirit, to put them upon considering and to give them a good understanding.

 

3. We then number our days to good purpose when thereby our hearts are inclined and engaged to true wisdom, that is, to the practice of serious godliness.  To be godly is to be wise; this is a thing to which it is necessary that we apply our hearts, and the matter requires and deserves a close application, to which frequent thoughts of the uncertainty of our continuance here, and the certainty of our removal hence, will very much contribute.

 

As you are growing in age, remember that all men are of few days on earth. Therefore, maximize your grace by being usable and useful in the hand of God. He will stand by you, and bless you to be fruitful and fulfilled in His purpose. Be sure, you apply your heart unto wisdom.

 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, help me to be wise hearted in counting our age so as to see life in your own way in Jesus name.

 

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