I have had days where just getting out of bed was all the "work" I wanted to muster. Some call it depression, and it is, but more than that I call it loss of "unction", all my motivation is gone. These verse speaks to me on that thought.
Show me, O Lord, my life’s end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting is my life.
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man’s life is but a breath. (niv) Pslams 39:4
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting is my life.
You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man’s life is but a breath. (niv) Pslams 39:4
I chewed on that. Ever breathed
on a window during a cold winter’s day? Did you notice how it fogged up,
and then the fog instantly disappeared? That is what the psalmist David
is saying the life of man is like. Here for a brief moment, then gone.
Why would David ask God to show him the shortness of his life? David
knew that when a man grasps how short his life is, he begins to live
with a new sense of what’s truly important.
Daily Reflection: Look up the word “unction” in your dictionary. How can you focus on what’s truly important in life?
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