day no. 12,867: and yet another sine qua non‏

Psalm 90:12

 

Teach us to number our days carefully
so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts

 

We do not, by nature, number our days carefully.

We likely don’t count them at all and those that do don’t do it carefully.

 

We need to be taught by God the discipline of numbering carefully our days.

 

Why?

 

“so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.”

 

Our hearts do not, by nature, contain wisdom.

 

Wisdom itself is not a static thing.

It can be matured, grown, fertilized, expanded, etc…

 

We develop wisdom in our hearts by numbering carefully our days.

 

We daily must return to this careful numbering and assessment in order to develop, grow, mature the wisdom we have been granted when we first began to reflect upon our days.

 

As the days of our lives grow in number, so do the days upon which we reflect and number as source material upon which to look back on God’s working in our lives.

 

As the days of our lives grow in number, the days of life remaining begin to dwindle one at a relentless time. The number of days left to reflect upon God is decreasing daily.

 

Lord, teach us so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.

We all know that we are going to die. We know it.

 

But our hearts don’t often follow that head logic.

 

In order to develop wisdom in our hearts, we need to be taught to number our days carefully.