Teach Us to Number Our Days That We Might See We Are Designed by God

Teach Us to Number Our Days

That We Might See We Are Designed by God

Have you ever taken

a close look at God’s work

in your life?

What would you think

 if I said there is not a day of your life

that God was not with you

and working in your life?

God seems to be so far away at times

and yet the Bible clearly tells us

He never leaves us

"Never will I leave you;

never will I forsake you."  

Hebrews 13:5 NIV & Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV

God started working in your life

before you were born.

13 For you created my inmost being;

you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful,

I know that full well. Psalm 139:13-14 NIV

If God has been at work every day in your life,

than it might be a good idea

to take a look at what He has done.

I have 3 children and 4 grand daughters,

the youngest is now 5 years old.

At 9 months, I can see her personality

was very different then the other grand children.

It seems evident that God has given

each one of them a personality before they were born.

Taking a simple personality assessment can reveal

 “How” God wants you to effect the world around you.

There are four basic temperament styles;

and just as a room with 4 walls sees what is in the room differently,

so will you see things differently than others.

That is by God’s design.

Over the next few devotionals,

we will try to look at how God has worked in our days.

My hope is that you will identify

God’s handy work in you and increase your confidence.

I hope you will enjoy numbering our days

as they are designed by God.

Scripture Reading

Psalm 90:12 NIV

12 Teach us to number our days aright,

that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

 Psalm 139:1-24 NIV

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in — behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day,

for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.

All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.

When I awake, I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!

Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name.