Psa 1:6; the produce of the field, and in a general way gain or profit, is hence called תּבוּאה. Our possessions belong to God. The suffix is here either gen. 12 Teach us to number our days, ( A) that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Any time you take a chance, you can fail. Jesus can take a little, bless it and multiply it. that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom; to consider our latter end, and what will become of us hereafter; which is a branch of wisdom so to do; to seek the way of salvation by Christ; to seek to Christ, the wisdom of God, for it; to fear the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom; and to walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise; to all which an application of the heart is necessary; for wisdom is to be sought for heartily, and with the whole heart: and to this divine teachings are requisite, as well as to number our days; for unless a man is taught of God, and by his Spirit convinced of sin, righteousness, and judgment, he will never be concerned, in good earnest, about a future state; nor inquire the way of salvation, nor heartily apply to Christ for it: he may number his days, and consider the shortness of them, and apply his heart to folly, and not wisdom; see Isaiah 22:21. TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS “So teach us to number our days,” writes the psalmist, “that we may apply our hearts to wisdom”. Psalm 90:12 AMP So teach us to number our days, That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom. It is a key part of a meditation on God and on living as the people of God. In the New Testament a word that is often used for “slave” or “servant” is the Greek word doulos. Being filled with divine love, their brief life on earth would become a joyful festival, and would continue so as long as it lasted. Context Summary. If we were wise in heart we should see this, but mere head wisdom will not guide us aright. Moses in the earlier verses in Psalm 90, explained, “The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years” (verse 10). "Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom." The only satisfying food for the Lord's people is the favour of God; this Moses earnestly seeks for, and as the manna fell in the morning he beseeches the Lord to send at once his satisfying favour, that all through the little day of life they might be filled therewith. Are we so soon to die? Good men know how to turn the darkest trials into arguments at the throne of grace. All rights reserved. The prayer is, that God would enable us to form such an estimate of life, that we shall be truly wise; that we may be able to act "as if" we saw the whole of life, or as we should do if we saw its end. But הביא is not to be taken, with Ewald and Hitzig, in the signification of bringing as an offering, a meaning this verb cannot have of itself alone (why should it not have been ונקריב?). Suffer not our lives to be both brief and bitter. Watch Greg Laurie's weekly television broadcast on LightSource.com. All the days of our life. I think it’s quite obvious. 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