Psalm 90 (KJV): Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts

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Psalm 90
(A prayer of Moses the man of God.)

¹Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place
      in all generations.
²Before the mountains were brought forth,
      or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world,
      even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³Thou turnest man to destruction;
      and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
⁴For a thousand years in thy sight
      are but as yesterday when it is past,
      and as a watch in the night.
⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep:
      in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up;
      in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger,
      and by thy wrath are we troubled.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
      our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath:
      we spend our years as a tale that is told.
¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten;
      and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years,
yet is their strength labour and sorrow;
      for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger?
      even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
¹²So teach us to number our days,
      that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³Return, O LORD, how long?
      and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
¹⁴O satisfy us early with thy mercy;
      that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us,
      and the years wherein we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,
      and thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us:
      and establish thou the work of our hands upon us;
      yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Lord,  thank you for this psalm this morning and allowing me to use to start this day of recovery.  For it reminds me of many things and helps me to praise your name.  From verse 14, it satisfies me early in the day with your mercy, and allows to sing for joy and be glad.  It also reminds me that are days on this earth are numbered and I need to use them wisely.  I need to use them to spend time with the ones I love.  To teach my children well that they may pass on your wisdom that my father taught me.  To teach my children to avoid the sins and affliction that troubled my life.  As the psalmist here wrote in verse 15 please give me as many beautiful days in your light as I spent in my addictions - if you can do that I can rest assured the rest my days will be great.  Let this psalm, as with all the passages of the bible, guide me and help establish the of my hands that I may live a life that is as satisfying to you as it is to me.

Amen.

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