Moses reminds us that life is so short and then we die ("fly away"). David writes in Psalm 39:4: “Show me, O LORD, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting is my life.” (Psalm 39:4) Or as we read earlier in Psalm 90:12: “Teach us to number our days aright, that … The last clause, if intelligible at all, must mean “that we may offer a wise heart,” and the natural way to understand the verse is to make God, not man, as in the Authorised Version, the reckoner of the days.
Psalm 90:12 Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Question: "Why should we want God to teach us to number our days (Psalm 90:12)?"
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We move from day to day without a care. This is one of the most neglected verses of the Bible, yet it is one of the most important. Why? Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.. Psalm 119:84 How many are the days of thy servant? December 31, 2006. Verse 12.
I want to preach on “Teach Us to Number Our Days.” Many of you know that Psalm 90:12 is the verse that we’ve chosen for the college. "So teach Thou us." But I don’t want to waste one moment of my life in this age. This is where I get the title of my message this morning: "Teach Us to Number Our Days." 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Cancel at any time. In verse 12 he prays, So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.ref [ESV], or in the NIV, Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me… This winter we’re studying a number of selected Psalms. There is something about us, which lets our days pass by, unnoticed and uncared for. Here is one lesson that you're never too old to learn: "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. “But he needed to go through Samaria.” (John 4:4) I wrote this column over 10 years ago.
In Psalm 90 we see this in Moses, who prays, “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (v. 12). 90:12) Now, what that means is this: "Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should." The key verse to this Psalm comes right in the middle: verse 12. Answer: Psalm 90:12 says, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” The request “teach us to number our days” means that we need God to reveal to us the brevity of life. Worldwide Index of Sermons Recommended for you. —This verse as it stands literally gives to allot, or in allotting (see Isaiah 65:12), our days, so teach, and we will cause to come the heart wisdom. It was as if I was muttering this like a prayer under my breath to the Lord.