Today's ODB is from Psalm 90, a prayer of Moses. How timely comes this message as I watched the movie "Click" last night and was pondering on the "menu of life".
In the movie, the main character can "remote control" his life : replay his happy times, fast-forward the unhappy times such as argument with his wife, skip his days of unwanted events like sickness, traffic jam etc. and he can even go straight to his days of promotion and the day of his son's wedding. A life full of only happy things, but he missed seeing his son grow, missed attending his father's funeral, bury himself with grieve when his days on earth is ending. (Well, the story doesn't end here and got a happy ending, so worth watching.)
What if my life was like that ? It'll be quite empty and nothing memorable. From our last bible studies on Ps 90, I remembered 3 important points :
a) acknowledge God is the eternal God and we are just dust on earth;
b) our days on earth are just trouble and sorrow, nothing long-lasting;
c) however, what we do during our lives counts in eternity or in generations after us, such as work that establishes people and draw them to God.
So it doesn't matter if we live to 70 or 80 years old, how we carry it matters.
10 我們一生的年日是七十歲，如果強壯，可到八十歲，但其中可誇耀的，不過是勞苦愁煩；我們的年日轉眼即逝，我們也如飛而去了。 ... 12 求你教導我們怎樣數算自己的日子，好使我們得著智慧的心。
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