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Learning to Number Your Days

I was never particularly good at math, were you? I'm really thankful for calculators! But there's a new math that I truly want to learn. It is the Bible math of learning to number my days rightly. David and Moses asked God to teach them that new math, and we need to pray for the same gift.
 

Learning to Number Your Days

As the Psalmist prayed, we have to learn to number our days aright; how to live with a completely new attitude; how to live now in the light of eternity.
 
I briefly told you about the Judgment Seat of Christ, where believers will be judged for how well they numbered their days.
 
This course is one that you must teach yourself, with the help of the Holy Spirit. In other words, you have to determine to embrace a new attitude toward every aspect of your life. It is a lesson you must apply every day to your life.

Learning to Number Your Days

I've been trying to enroll you in a very important math course that will change your life. It's "new math" for most of us, because not many of us know how to do it. It's called "Numbering Your Days."
 
In Psalm 90:12 Moses prayed, "Teach us to number our days aright. . ." I want to remind you of some theology that will help you learn this new math of numbering your days. It's called the Judgment Seat of Christ. This is a judgment for believers, not unbelievers.
 

Learning to Number Your Days

All of us tend to live as though these days here on earth are numberless, don't we? We just don't naturally think about the fact that our days on earth will not go on forever. But as David wrote in Psalm 39:5.
 
"You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Each man's life is but a breath."
 
And again in Psalm 103:15-16: 
 

Learning to Number Your Days

How many days do you have left? That's a very sobering, somewhat unsettling question, isn't it? We don't like to think about the fact that our days here on this earth are numbered. Oh, we all know the number behind us—how many days we've lived already. But thinking about how many are left—well, that's not something we think about too often.
 

Fran & Jesus on the Job - Bad Times

Fran was bombarded with trouble all week long, none of it of her own doing. And by the end of the week she felt like the world was coming in around her and crushing her. She wanted to run away.
 

Fran & Jesus on the Job - Bad Times

Trouble comes in multiples, have you noticed? What can we do when something bad is happening on every hand? That’s the dilemma Fran is facing this week.
 
Her litany of troubles includes her son breaking his wrist at school and now his right hand is out of commission for six weeks, turning him into a helpless, demanding whiner, at times. She had to make a crisis, unscheduled presentation at work, which threw her way behind in her job.
 

Fran & Jesus on the Job - Bad Times

Sometimes life seems to be full of nothing but trouble, wouldn’t you agree? Our friend, Fran, is experiencing one of those times when the world seems to be falling in around her ears.
 

Fran & Jesus on the Job - Bad Times

Have you noticed that problems and trials often seem to come in bunches? Yesterday Fran’s son Drew broke his wrist playing ball at school, and now his right hand is in a cast for at least six weeks. Fran manages to get him to school today, and then heads to her office.
 
“Lord,” she says, “I think Drew is enjoying being an invalid. Wow, what a pain he was this morning, getting him dressed and off to school. I guess he’ll try to get as much mileage out of it as possible.”
 

Fran & Jesus on the Job - Bad Times

Do you ever feel like the whole world is coming in around you? This week as we continue our story of Fran and Jesus on the Job, Fran is struggling with life in general. This is an on-going story I tell periodically, as a way of reminding us to practice the presence of Jesus. . . to remember that he is with us at all times and his strength and help are at our fingertips.
 
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