I loved reading the testimonies this morning on the Signal group about striving with your whole heart to do your best while you are young. As the testimonies and responses were still coming in, I started working on putting together some Acts CD sets on my table, and remembered that I had one more Old Testament CD to listen to for our OT class* this week. Below is what I heard immediately on the first two minutes of that CD.
Psalm 90 (Rob reading KJV, but I’ve put in our translation)
- For we are consumed by your anger, and we are dismayed by your wrath.
- You have set our iniquities before you, our secret in the light of your face,
- and so, all our days pass away because of your fury. We end our years like a sigh.
- The days of our years are seventy years, but even if by reason of strength they be eighty years, their pride is but toil and trouble. Quickly, it passes, and then, away we fly.
- Who knows the power of your anger or your wrath to the measure of the fear that is due you?
- So, teach us to number our days, that we may apply our heart to wisdom.
Pastor John said: “Tonight. It’s the only ‘tonight’ you’ll have, as far as this night goes. So, when we sing this song, let’s take advantage of the opportunity, to sing it with our whole hearts, as unto the Lord. I imagine that just about everybody who is already dead wishes they had an opportunity we have tonight to sing a song to the Lord – whether they were saints and went to be with the Lord, they wish they had it to do all over again, so they could sing it with more gusto – and whether they were sinners who are right now in torment, you know they wish they had the opportunity right now to take advantage of the time they threw away while they were on earth. So when Moses said, “Teach us to number our days,” basically what he means is ‘teach us to know our days are numbered.’ And if we know that, we are going to apply our hearts to wisdom, which is, to serve the Lord with your whole heart.”
Donna N.