Psalm 90:12 KJV: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” NCV: “Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.”
Teach us to number our days means we need to realize that our time on earth is short. From Adam’s time to Noah’s time of flood, the people had lived so many years up to 900 years. Genesis 6:5-6 tells us that God saw that men were always thinking evil and never giving God the glory. God was sorry that He made man on earth and God was grieved. Finally God said, “Enough is enough.” He found only one man Noah who loved God and built an ark. Why the flood? To destroy all the people who lived up to 900 years. God said, “No more.” From now on, 70 years is all that a man has to live on earth.
Psalm 90:10 tells us that “Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong eighty years. But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.” But God is external and has been generation after generation. God was there before He created the earth and the world. He was God and has always been and will always be. To God a thousand years is like a day to Him. The people are like grass that grow up in the morning and then in the evening they dry up and die (Ps. 90:1-6). “Lord, fill us with Your love every morning. Then we will sing and rejoice all our lives” (Ps. 90:14).
So let us rejoiced in our days!
Chorus: Great is Thy Faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness! Great is Thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercy I see;
All I have needed Thy hand has provided,
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.
(Thomas Obediah Chrisholm, Sing His Praise)
