For My Children

This morning I read Psalm 90. It was there to startle me again.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90:12)

How deeply does this encapsulate what we must do! I have been thinking about this all day. Every time I read this Psalm I am startled by its truth. The Psalmist continues:

"Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil." (Psalm 90:15)

How can we be glad with affliction? Perhaps that means the gift of being. But surely it also means suffering. It means the tenderness of existence. We are glad to be afflicted with being because being is a sign of the Creator's love, and affliction a sign of our fallen nature. We ask with the Psalmist to be taught to think of this condition, Adam's condition, so that we may use our time wisely.

The days have gone by, many unnumbered. May God continue our days. May God allow me to write to my children. May God give me wisdom.