Teach Us to Number Our Days My Life Verse Keeps Me Righteous

Teach Us to Number Our Days

My Life Verse Keeps Me Righteous

We learn to play “Peek a Boo” at a very young age.

As adults, we sometimes want to play the game with God.

Times we want to say,

“Don’t look God! Don’t look!

But He sees all and knows every thought.

When our granddaughter Tori was little,

we would play the peek a boo game with her.

She used to sit at the dining room table

and cover her eyes thinking no one could see her.

And we would say,

 “Where’s Tori?”

as if we didn’t see her.

 

In John Ortherg’s book,

“God is Closer Than You Think”

he wonderfully describes

how close God is to us.

In one section of the book,

he shares a story of a little boy and his mommy.

The little boy is playing

and mommy tells him not to get dirty.

The little boy plays a game with mommy

where mommy covers her eyes.

The little boy says,

“Don’t look mommy!”

Children many times

think it is all right if no one sees.

God is closer than we think.

We want him with us,

but there are times

we are like a little child that says,

 “Don’t look! Don’t look!”

It might be that second helping at the dinner table…

or the rush on the express way…

maybe a TV show…

or an alone moment with the internet…

And we say,

“Don’t look God! Don’t look!”

He said,

“Never will I leave you”

Yes, God is with you where ever you are

and there is not a time that He is not there

wanting to bring blessing to your life.

This consciousness of His presences

has maybe been the greatest factor

in keeping me on the righteous road of life.

Oh, at times I’ve wanted to play the game

and say,

‘Cover your eyes, don’t look!’

But God is not playing;

 He loves you and me too much!

Scripture Reading

Hebrews 13:5 NIV

…because God has said,

"Never will I leave you;

never will I forsake you."  

Psalm 139:1-12 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.