Teach Us to Number Our Days Recognizing Where You Live

Teach Us to Number Our Days

Recognizing Where You Live

You might be surprised

at where the Bible says you live.

Knowing where you are

will affect your day.

 

It is amazing to think that Adam lived 930 years,

Enosh lived 905 years, Jered 962 years.

Those born before the flood lived almost 1000 years!

Abraham lived to be 175;

Sarah lived to be 127;

Moses lived to be 120.

We, who live in America,

are living to 70 or 80 years.

In Moses’ prayer of Psalms 90,

he makes the point,

“Our days on the earth are short.”

If you were asked,

“Where do you live?”

You might say the name of a state, a city or a town.

If you were asked,

“How long have you lived there?”

You might say all your life or some shorter period of time.

Moses recognized the life spans and how short they are.

In light of all this,

Moses starts the Psalm with the words:

“You have been our dwelling place

throughout all generations.”

Moses declared that God is our dwelling place,

no matter when you might have lived,

because He is from everlasting to everlasting.

In Moses’ blessing of the tribes of Israel

in Deuteronomy 33:27, he says,

“The eternal God is your refuge,

and underneath are the everlasting arms”

Moses looked beyond living in Egypt and in the wilderness.

Moses recognized our dwelling place is in God.

Even when the wrath of God

was on His people for 40 years in the wilderness,

Moses recognized he was in the dwelling place of God.

David said there was no place

he could go from the presences of God.

Some 91 times in the New Testament,

we find the words “in Christ.”

A study of these verses will reveal the wonderful blessings

there are as we dwell in Christ.

Yes, God made the mountains and the plains;

He made the place you live.

He ordained the exact time in history

and place for you to live

so that in the end you and I might find Him and realize that,

“we live and move and have our being in Him”

As we learn to number our days,

let us not forget our real address.

“You have been our dwelling place”

“For in him we live and move and have our being.”

Scripture Reading

Psalm 90:1-2 NIV

90:1 A prayer of Moses the man of God.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place

throughout all generations.

2 Before the mountains were born

or you brought forth the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psalm 90:12 NIV

12 Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Acts 17:24-28 NIV

24 "The God who made the world

and everything in it is the Lord of heaven

and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.

25 And he is not served by human hands,

as if he needed anything,

because he himself gives all men life

and breath and everything else.

26 From one man he made every nation of men,

that they should inhabit the whole earth;

and he determined the times set for them

and the exact places where they should live.

27 God did this so that men would seek him

and perhaps reach out for him and find him,

though he is not far from each one of us.

28 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'

As some of your own poets have said, 

    'We are his offspring.'