Lord teach me to number my days so that I might present to thee a heart of wisdom.

Have you ever counted how many days there are in a full life. The average life today is 70 years; that is 25,500 days. When you break it down that isn’t very many days? As you get older the days become less and less. I have lived about 22,000 of them.

If we do not have a life after this life then the acquisition of wisdom is vanity.

People often say, if only I had these smarts I’ve acquired over the course of my life and could have been able to apply them when I was young. Yes, we dream about what we could have done in the past now that we know what we know.

But what do we know…what kind of heart do we have that God will be impressed with? The number of days we are allotted should not be the focus, since we cannot add one cubit to our stature (length of days) but rather the focus of our days should be set upon the accumulation of wisdom.

What then is wisdom, so that we may acquire it as we live out our days, and then when we pass from this mortal life we might be able to present what we have accumulated unto the Lord?

The beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord ( fear, or reverence is a better handle on the meaning of the fear of the Lord). Do you allow the reverence of the Lord to monitor what you allow into your heart? The world has no fear of God. How long has it been since you stopped to think about this?

I don’t know about you, but I need to have more reverence before the Lord.

If the kingdom of heaven is indeed within, then what is it we allow into our kingdom? We are the gate keepers to our heart and what we allow in determines what our heart will or can or should be. Will it be a heart of wisdom? Life is short. The Lord is at hand.

Lord teach me to number my days that I might present to thee a heart of wisdom.