Number Our Days

The Finish

This psalm names the specific, intended outcome of numbering our days here, apply our hearts unto wisdom, worth holding as this whole movement’s own practical aim, not morbid preoccupation with mortality for its own sake, but this described wisdom, genuine, practical outcome this honest numbering is actually meant to produce.

This is worth examining against however much your own avoidance of thinking about limited time has actually produced the opposite of wisdom, foolish, unexamined assumptions that time remains unlimited, rather than this psalm’s own claim, genuine wisdom flowing specifically from this honest, deliberate numbering.

Notice teach us, this numbering named as something requiring genuine, active instruction, not naturally, automatically arrived at, worth holding as needed humility, asking specifically for God’s own teaching in this practice, not assuming you already, naturally know how to number your days wisely on your own.

Consider today praying this psalm’s own request directly, so teach us to number our days, asking God specifically to teach you this practice, trusting that genuine wisdom, applied hearts, flows specifically from this honest, deliberate numbering, not from continued avoidance of genuinely limited time.