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Psalm chapter 39 verse four and five.

Oh Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting I am.

Behold you have made my days a few hand breaths and my lifetime is as nothing

before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath.

Well those are sobering verses aren't they?

David, the Psalmmist here, asks God to remind Him how short his life is, how fleeting his life is.

Let me know how fleeting I in.

Make me to know my end.

Why does he pray that?

Because he knows, just like you and me, that we're tempted to think we have plenty of days left.

We don't think about the reality that none of us is guaranteed tomorrow.

That we're not guaranteed to make it through today. Not one of us is our lives are breaths. Just think about that imagery. I take in a breath

Breathe it out takes a second or two.

That's your life.

This is James 4.

Your life is a vapor.

It's here one second and gone the next.

The same word that's translated breath here in Psalm 39 is what starts the book of

Ecclesiasties when likely Solomon, the author of Ecclesiasties, says all of life is a breath.

And some translations there say it's meaningless. Like it's short, it's a vapor.

And you and I need God to remind us of this. We need to know that the end of our days is coming.

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