SPEAKER_00: Good morning, First Baptist Wimberly.
SPEAKER_00: This is Mike Gibbons.
SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Friday.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, summer before last, we spent some time in the Psalms.
SPEAKER_00: And this Sunday we are returning to one Psalm before Pastor Aaron continues in Nehemiah.
SPEAKER_00: We're going to look at Psalm 90.
SPEAKER_00: Now, in that Psalm, verse 12 is the hinge, as we will see on Sunday.
SPEAKER_00: But let me read verse 12.
SPEAKER_00: So, teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: Let's focus on that one phrase.
SPEAKER_00: Get a heart of wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: As disciples of Christ, isn't that our desire?
SPEAKER_00: For me, as I grow older, that is especially the case.
SPEAKER_00: I want to go grow wiser.
SPEAKER_00: I certainly don't want to grow more like the fool that Proverbs speaks of.
SPEAKER_00: I want to walk the last leg of this journey in a manner worthy of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And that only comes through wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: And to do this, we must come to terms, as the verse says, with the brevity of life.
SPEAKER_00: Teach us to number our days.
SPEAKER_00: Our perspective needs to be shaped by God's perspective.
SPEAKER_00: God is from everlasting to everlasting.
SPEAKER_00: Our life is like grass that fades and withers, as Psalm 90 says earlier.
SPEAKER_00: Our perspective needs to be one like God's eternal.
SPEAKER_00: It also requires us to never forget the power of this everlasting God.
SPEAKER_00: In considering this, we live in appropriate fear of Him, which is the beginning of wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: The fear of the Lord should lead us to take refuge in the deliverance that Jesus has bought us through his perfect life, death, and resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: This is the heart of wisdom that leads to a life of wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: Now no one ever arrives at a point where they possess a heart and mind full of this wisdom.
SPEAKER_00: But we press on to make it our own because Christ Jesus has made us his own.
SPEAKER_00: As you prepare for Sunday, would you read through Psalm 90?
SPEAKER_00: May we all get a heart of wisdom during our brief time in this temporary home called Earth.
SPEAKER_00: This is Mike Gibbons, and I love being your pastor.