LORD, "Teach Us To Number Our Days Aright."

You have not passed this way before!

(J.R. Miller, "The Shining Light" 1911)

"You have not passed this 
way before!" Joshua 3:4

All of life is new. There is not a step 
of it of which it may not be said to us: 
"You have not passed this way before." 
Every day's path is new to each one of us.

We say that our life is only dull routine. 
We rise each morning to go through 
the same round we went through 
yesterday. We walk along the same 
roads every day for years. Life 
seems to us to have no variety.

Yet really each day is new and peculiar. 
We do not know what experiences 
it will bring to us . . .
  what new joys or sorrows,
  what new struggles,
  what new responsibilities,
  what new revealings,
  what new duties.

Each morning the voice 
of GOD whispers to us: 

"You have not passed this way before!"

"So teach us to number our days 
aright, that we may gain a heart 
of wisdom." Psalm 90:12
 

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GraceGems has published the Puritan Matthew Mead's encouraging article, 
"A Name in Heaven, the Truest Ground of Joy!"