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July 30
Wednesday


SNAPSHOTS
OF TIME

READ:
Psalm 90:1-12
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Teach us to number our
days, that we may gain
a heart of wisdom.
__Psalm 90:12
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The designers of an innovative Web site call their creation a "snapshot" of our worlds. Every hour, computers monitor international news sources, select the most frequently occurring words and pictures, then display them as an interactive image. Over tiime, these hourly snapshots compose a mosaic of unfolding world events.

If a computer could track our words and actions, what would a snapshot of yesterday reveal? Over the weeks and months, what patterns would emerge? And what theme would dominate the final mosaic of our lives?

Psalm 90, a prayer of Moses the man of God, is a powerfully honest look at the brevity and significance of life. The writer compares an entire lifetime to a dream or a blade of grass, and cries out to God: "So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" (v.12). Our days often seem so insignificant, yet they add up to so much. The Message renders verse 12: "Teach us to live wisely and well." It is a prayer for the snapshots of life with the final image in view.

When all the pictures of our life are laid on the table, they will reveal our recurring words and actions What story will they tell? It's worth considering as we make our choices each day. __David McCasland
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``````````````````God has given life abundant__``````````````````
````````````````````Live it fully every day;``````````````````````
```````````````Though our time on earth is fleeting,````````````````
```````````````He goes with us all the way. __Hess````````````````
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It's not how long you live that counts,
but how you live.

****************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 90:1-12************

1 LORD, you have been our
dwelling place in all
generations. 2 Before the
mountains were brought
forth, or ever You had
formed the earth and the
world, even from
everlasting to everlasting,
You are God.

3 You turn man to
destruction, and say,
"Return O children of
men." 4 For a thousand
years in Your sight are like
yesterday when it is past,
and like a watch in the
night. 5 You carry them
away like a flood; they are
like a sleep. In the morning
they are like grass which
grows up: 6 In the morning
it flourishes and grows up;
in the evening it is cut down
and withers.

7 For we have been
consumed by Your anger,
and by Your wrath we are
terrified. 8 You have set our
iniquities before You, our
secret sins in the light of
Your countenance. 9 For all
our days have passed away
in Your wrath; we finish our
years like a sigh. 10 The
days of our lives are
seventy years; and if by
reason of strength they are
eighty years, yet their boast
is only labor and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off, and
we fly away. 11 Who knows
the power of Your anger?
For as the fear of You, so is
Your wrath. 12 So teach us
to number our days, that we
may gain a heart of
wisdom.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

In the superscription to this psalm, Moses is described as "the man
of God," a title used often of him (Deut. 33:1; Josh. 14:6; 1 Chron.
23:14, 2 Chron. 30:16; Ezra 3:2) and of David (2 Chron. 8:14; Neh.
12:24,36). In 2 Timothy 3:17, Paul used the title in his description of
a faithful christian. __Sim Kay Tee