Numbering your Days I

Saturday 10 September
READ: Psa. 90:10-12
MORE LESSON: John 9: 4

The Bible says, So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom: Psa. 90:12. This scripture is a very important one in mastering the principles of impactful living. Many people use this scripture to mark birthdays and other events, which is a good thing to do. But the scripture talks about numbering our days and not just numbering our years. It is therefore important to understand the holistic meaning of this scripture so that we may get the wisdom hidden in it. The Bible directly links numbering our days with being wise. So how do we number our days?
One of the troubles of today is that many people are not good managers of their days and before they know it the days of their lives slip through their hands such that they can't account for what they have done with them. If a man allows each day to waste without accounting for how he spent it in a worthwhile way, he will realise that by the end of his life he has more wasted days than achievements. This is the issue that bothered the psalmist to the point of prayer in the text of today. This psalm was written by Moses but must have been prayed also by David who was a king and noticed so many activities and people contending for his day that if he was not wise, he would become so busy while little or nothing was achieved for God and for his purpose in life. This is the reason you also have to evaluate each day and look at all you did. Do you maximize each day? What achievements do you have with the resources of each day? If you are asked to pen down the activities of the day, how much of it will please the heart of God? This is the reason why you have to write down a plan and schedule for your day and achieve what matters for each day. It is in using your days well that result to using your years productively.
One of the treasures in life is time. Whatsoever wastes your time wastes your life. If you are wasting your own time, you are wasting your own life because God has a fixed time for everybody. There is a day that it will be said 'time up' for you in life. Your life at that point will be a summary of all you have used your days to do. It is important to know that in the issue of living, it is not how long that is important as how well. Did you spend the days of your life glorifying God, impacting lives and fulfilling your divine purpose? It is all in the way you live each day. Ask God to give you wisdom not to waste your day but to spend each day doing God's will and benefiting humanity.

PRAYER/ACTION
* Lord, help me to number my days and to apply wisdom, in Jesus’ name.
* I reject every wasteful and unprofitable way of living, in Jesus’ name.
* I disengage myself from the spirit of busybody and distraction in life, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Evil memorial is out of my calendar this month, I shall remember each day for good things, in the name of Jesus.