“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
(Psalm 90:12)
This psalm is attributed to Moses who lived for one-hundred and twenty years. He lived his first forty years as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. The second forty years he lived as a fugitive and shepherd. The final third of his life was lived as the deliverer of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage to the edge of the Promised Land. During those last forty years he was their law giver, giving laws that are revered and respected to this day.
In this psalm he speaks of the length of life as being perhaps seventy years or possibly eighty years. Of course, you and I know folks who have lived much longer than that and have known many others who have passed away much younger.
So we are taught that at its best, life is brief. James says that it is like a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. There is a verse (not in the Bible) that says, “Only one life; twill soon be past: Only what’s done for Christ will last.” Let us number our days and apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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