TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS

1. The numbering of
 DAYS in months and years demonstrate certainty of our MORTALITY, but God is IMMORTAL, “But beloved, be not IGNORANT of this one thing, that ONE DAY is with the Lord as a thousand years, and A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY” (2 Peter 3:8] According to Bible records, no man exceeded the limit of “ONE DAY”; the oldest man was Methuselah, “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died” [Genesis 5:27] Each man has ONE DAY, reckoned by God as “EVENING” and “MORNING”, “And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the EVENING and MORNING were the FIRST DAY” [Genesis 1:5] The “EVENING” is ruled by DARKNESS, the season of IGNORANCE and alienation from God, “And the times of this IGNORANCE God WINKED at; but now commandeth all men every where to REPENT: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead” [Acts 17:30-31] Listen carefully,  whereas our TIME on earth is limited, ENDLESS LIFE await those who apply their hearts to WISDOM: “SO TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS, THAT WE MAY APPLY OUR HEARTS TO WISDOM” (Psalms 90:12) 

2. The DAY allotted to man is synonymous with LIFE, not TIME; TIME has an END, as the SEVENTH ANGEL swore, “… there should be TIME NO LONGER: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the MYSTERY OF GOD should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets” [Revelation 10:6-7] When God “BREATHED” into man in Genesis 2:7, He gave us the capacity for ENDLESS LIFE; it was  lost in Eden through SIN, but restored in Jesus Christ “For the WAGES of SIN is DEATH; but the GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE through Jesus Christ our Lord” [Romans 6:23] As long as we were entangled in SIN, our DAYS were ruled by DARKNESS and we were slaves to the one who wielded the POWER of DEATH, “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also HIMSELF likewise took part of the same; that THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM that has the POWER OF DEATH, that is, the DEVIL; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage” [Hebrews 2:14-15] It is a MYSTERY; how HIMSELF, that is, God became like us to TEACH us to NUMBER OUR DAYS, “To wit, that GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING the WORLD unto HIMSELF, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the WORD OF RECONCILIATION” [2 Corinthians 5:19]

 3. Listen to WISDOM, “…  a MAN’S LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN THE ABUNDANCE of the things which he POSSESSETH” [Luke 12:15] The true “NUMBERS” of a man’s LIFE is ETERNAL RELEVANCE, not wealth, age, fame, power, title, etc. WISDOM reveals the limitation of our earthly sojourn, for “… it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” [Hebrews 9:27] Seek WISDOM with all your heart and you will find Him, and “.. unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, CHRIST the POWER of God, and the WISDOM of God” [1 Corinthians 1:24] Jesus Christ is the WISDOM of God; I invite you to have a taste of the knowledge of TRUTH, “So shall the knowledge of WISDOM be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a REWARD, and thy EXPECTATIONS SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF” [Proverbs 24:14] In His NAME is POWER of God to translate the worst offender, trapped in the darkest parts of the NIGHT, to the LIBERTY of glorious MORNING. All He requires of you is genuine REPENTANCE, “REPENT ye therefore, and be CONVERTED, that your SINS BE BLOTTED OUT, when the TIMES OF REFRESHING shall come from the presence of the Lord” [Acts 3:19] Brethren, the time of REFRESHING is so close when MORTALITY shall take on IMMORTALITY; let us, therefore, hold on tight to WISDOM, “Beloved, now are we the SONS OF GOD, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for we shall see him as he is” [1 John 3:2]