#psalm90

My deepest sympathies and thoughts go out to everyone affected by the catastrophic Dreamliner crash. This tragedy has left behind not just a wreckage of metal and fire, but of human hope and future. Lives full of promise were cut short in a moment. Families are grieving. A community is shaken. And the question that quietly haunts the soul arises again—what is life, and how should we live it?

In Psalm 90:12, Moses offers a prayer that rings louder in moments like these: “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

Another way to read this verse is: “Lord, teach us to make our days count!” Not just to count our days, but to make each one meaningful—investing in relationships, serving with purpose, forgiving quickly, and living with eternal perspective. Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

None of us is promised tomorrow. We live under the illusion of control, planning for decades ahead while forgetting that our breath is borrowed. The only moment that truly belongs to us is now—the present. This is the time to live, to love deeply, to laugh freely, to serve generously, and to shape the legacy we will one day leave behind.

We must plan as if we will live forever—with vision, stewardship, and purpose. But we must also live as if today were our last—with passion, forgiveness, and courage. When death visits suddenly, it forces us to face what truly matters.

The lives lost in this tragedy must not be forgotten. Let their stories compel us to live more intentionally. To number our days is not to fear death—it is to treasure life. Each day is a sacred gift.

Live it well.

90 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

Psalm 90:1-16