Psalm 90:12-17
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O LORD! How long will it be?
Have compassion on your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Just the other day my kids askd the difference between being smart and being wise. I said something like being smart is knowing a lot of things. But wisom is being able to properly apply that knowledge. I'm pretty smart regarding all this God stuff. But I desire to gain the heart of wisdom the psalmist writes about.
Just like everybody else, I struggle with wanting to always do the right things, but feeling the pull of my sinful nature working against that. And when the flesh wins those battles, I can only look to God's mercy and love to help me face the consequences I so rightly deserve. Even in the midst of those aflictions I have brought upon my self by my disobedience, God is at work to teach and refine me. He will not give up on me. His favor is shown to me not only in times of ease and comfort. But perhaps even more so in those times of loving discilpine. And when I submit to His discilpine and yield to His leading, He will establish the work of my hands. Because in that state of surrender to Him, my hands are doing His work, no my own.
"Take my life and let it be all for You and for Your glory.
Take my life and let it be Yours.
Glory to God. Glory to God.
Glory to God, forever!"
by: Steve Fee, Vicky Beeching
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