Make Me to Know Mine End

The Finish

David names a specific, somewhat unusual request here, make me to know mine end, worth noticing directly, not avoidance of this knowledge, common instinct, but genuine, deliberate request to actually know it, worth holding as this whole movement’s own honest posture, facing mortality directly rather than avoiding it.

Notice that I may know how frail I am, the specific purpose named for this request, genuine humility this knowledge is meant to produce, worth examining against however much avoiding thoughts of mortality has quietly allowed a kind of practical, unexamined pride, forgetting genuine frailty rather than honestly, humbly remembering it.

This is worth applying today as deliberate practice, not morbid preoccupation, but genuine, humble remembrance, worth holding as this whole movement’s own honest posture, David’s own example, actually asking to know his own frailty, rather than the more common, instinctive avoidance of this exact knowledge.

Consider today praying David’s own unusual request, make me to know mine end, not to produce despair, but genuine, humble frailty, held honestly, worth trusting as this whole movement’s own needed corrective against whatever practical, unexamined pride avoiding this knowledge has otherwise, quietly allowed.