So teach us…

Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
I started teaching the adult Sunday School class at our church 2 weeks ago. The hardest part was to decide what to teach. Our Pastor has preached through the entire Bible over the past 2 years. So what is left for me to teach? Since he has done it as book studies, that option did not seem the best for me. Prayer is a topic that I keep coming back to in my life. Probably because of my constant need to come to Him. I have been more impressed with my need to just commune with God. When I stop to think of my prayer life, at times it seems very petty and selfish. I know God wants us to bring our requests to Him, but what about our desire for Him. What part does communion play in our prayers? So I wonder and think about prayer. But I didn’t want to just study the topic of prayer. So instead, we are studying various prayers recorded in Scripture. We spent the last 2 weeks on Moses prayer in Psalm 90. (Yes, I think Moses wrote it) The first 11 verses are the thoughts of Moses on the frailty and brevity of human life, as compared to God’s immutability and eternality. Then he comes to verse 12. “So”, in light of the musings of the first 11 verses, Moses asks to be taught (translated “make me to know” in Ps. 39:4) regarding our days and the number of them. Compare this verse to these: Ps. 39:4; Deut. 32:29; Eccl. 9:10 (read the whole verse); John 9:4; and Eph. 5:16-17. One last thought, notice how he talks of numbering our “days” not our years.