"So Teach Us To Number Our Days Aright, That We May Gain A Heart Of Wisdom!"

The 'stream of time', with all 

the trifles that float on it!
("Life's Shortness and Vanity", A funeral sermon by Samuel Davies)

"For this world in its present  form 
is passing away!" 1 Corinthians 7:31

The whole scheme and system of worldly affairs--

all this marrying and rejoicing, and weeping, 

and buying, and enjoying--

is passing away! 

It is passing away this very moment! 

It not only will pass away--

but even now, it is passing away!

The 'stream of time', with all 

the trifles that float on it, and all 

the eager pursuers of these bubbles--

is in motion, in swift, incessant motion 

to empty itself and all that sail upon it--

into the shoreless ocean of eternity, 

where all will be absorbed and lost forever!

"YOU turn men back to dust, saying, 
'Return to dust, O sons of men.' For a 
thousand years in YOUR sight are like a day 
that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. 
YOU sweep men away in the sleep of death; 
they are like the new grass of the morning--
though in the morning it springs up new, 
by evening it is dry and withered. 
The length of our days is seventy years--
or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their 
span is but trouble and sorrow, for they 
quickly pass, and we fly away. 
So teach us to number our days aright, 
that we may gain a heart of wisdom!"
Psalm 90

  
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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's encouraging short article, 
"Pictures in the Heart".