SCRIPTURE: For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. So teach us to number our days, that we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:4, 12 AMP
THOUGHT: Time is a strange phenomenon, isn’t it? One minute you’re holding a baby and the next they are paying for your meal. One of my own ‘babies’ told me yesterday just before buying our lunch that when I grow old, I can come and live with her. She’s 24, and all grown up.
It’s a taste of God’s perspective when time collapses like that and we begin to see both the beginning and the end of things. And it’s a promise that life is like a wisp of smoke. Like the strange moments in Star Trek where everything goes blurry and the Enterprise travels at warp speed to some different galaxy, full of unrecognizable characters, we blink and find ourselves on a different part of the time spectrum, feeling a little woozy and out of sync.
Moses lived to be 120, so he had a good, long look at how things work. His conclusion in Psalm 90 is that time is short, and a heart full of wisdom is the best thing we can take with us when we go. Cultivation is the strategy, and it doesn’t happen without making it our intention. Ask any farmer, cultivation is hard work and doesn’t materialize by accident. But time? Time seems to happen by accident, when we aren’t looking.
PRAYER: Teach us, oh God, to number accurately the days you’ve given us. As we till hard ground, weed and plant seed, please be our help. Bring the rain and sun, and grow this crop called wisdom in our hearts.
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