Welcome to our first sermon of 2026. Let's all practice. Let's practice saying that. 2026. What year is it, everyone? We’ve got to get in the mindset of a new year. Now, you might be thinking, a pastor like me is going to be hitting you with some new year's resolutions. New year, new you. That's what they say, right? Well, what we want to talk about tonight is actually a higher resolution. The word “resolution” does not just mean you resolve to do something. A resolution can also mean the measure of the sharpness of an image. Have you ever heard of something being low res, and we need that image if it's going to work on the screen in a higher resolution? Well, that's what we want to have is a higher resolution, a higher way to see or view things. Our goal here at Compass Bible Church is we want to maintain a high view of God. And if you want to have great 2026, you shouldn't be looking in the mirror at what you can change, or what other people think about you, or what you look like on social media. What does God think when he looks at you? That's a higher resolution. What can you be asking God to do in this new year?
And so, I want to invite you to open the Bible and turn with me to Psalm 90, and we're going to kick off book four of the Psalms together, a Psalm of Moses. And I am so excited to read and study this Psalm with you here tonight. And if you look in the bulletin, you will see that there is a schedule for us reading book four of the Psalms throughout the month of January. And then there is also a handout for this sermon where you can take some notes. And if you look at this, you might be scared to find out that it goes on the front and also on the back of the handout. This is what happens if you give me a week off. All right? So, we are going to dive deep into Psalm 90, and I'm not going to apologize. I'm going to give you a disclaimer right up front that my goal through this sermon is to make you want to read these Psalms, and I'm not here to obligate you to do anything. I'm not here to guilt trip you or put pressure on you. I am here to inspire you that you should spend the month of January reading book four of the Psalms, because this is the one thing, the most important thing, the best thing that you could do with your life in 2026. it's actually the same one thing that was the best in 2025, it's the same one thing that will always be the best thing you could do, and that's know God. And if you want to know who God is, you should read these Psalms, because you are going to find out things about him that you will not find out anywhere else, things you can't compare to, anything that you see, feel or experience in your regularly scheduled life. And Moses, a man of God, he has a prayer here in Psalm 90. And if you want to learn who God is, I encourage you to give this your full and undivided attention. So out of respect for God's word, I invite everybody to stand up for the public reading of Scripture, and I encourage you to please follow along with me as I read Psalm 90.
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!” For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
That's the reading of Psalm 90. Please go ahead, have a seat. I've got the whole Psalm printed there on the handout if you want to take some notes to go along with it. And it says that this is the beginning of book four. So, as we get into the Psalms here together this evening, I want to make sure that everybody here knows that we call it the book of Psalms, but it's actually five different books of Psalms, and each chapter is like a perfect episode. If you get the whole picture of all fifty chapters, there are great, grand themes in the bigger story, but you can just open up on any given day and read any chapter and still get totally into it. That's how the Psalms operate. And a lot of people, they're not aware of the bigger narrative in the Psalms that they've arranged collections of these Hebrew hymns.
Of these songs of Israel, they have arranged them into careful selections. Book One, primarily David. It starts with this epic kind of introduction, and the man who meditates on the law of the Lord day and night, he's going to be blessed in all that he does. And then Psalm 2 is kind of this idea that the Son is coming and you want to kiss the Son, lest he be angry with you. And after that epic introduction, there are so many prayers from David, so many real, difficult situations where he's just pouring out his heart to God. If you start reading the Psalms, you get hooked into the transparency of David, a man after God's own heart. When we got to Book Two, it was more David, but also the Sons of Korah jumping in there, bringing a national feel. These are the songs of God's people, the chosen nation of Israel. Then we got to Book Three, where we met this genius guy named Asaph, one of the guys that David put in charge of the Ark of the Covenant, along with some other guys, some Levites, who really led to people in worship. And so, we've had three great books in the Psalms. And so now we come to Book Four. It's like, well, how could you possibly take it up a notch? How could you possibly get people to be compelled to keep reading after 89 Psalms, why would we need more? And then they've got just the idea, let's have Moses, right? You want to introduce a book of the Psalms in a way that would capture people's attention. How about if it's from Moses, a prayer from the man of God?
Moses is one of the few human beings that has ever lived on planet earth that needs no introduction. The man who raised his staff and the seas parted the plagues of Egypt. He said to Pharaoh, what did he say to Pharaoh, everybody? Let my people what? Let them go. That's what he said. And Pharaoh said a big old No. And so began this amazing story of God's glory. Moses, the man who went up on the mountain for forty days and nights and met with God. You mean that guy? We've got a psalm from him. You can see how that's a compelling introduction to Book Four and notice how it says Moses comma the man of God. I always wondered, is that how Moses referred to himself, or was that perhaps an editor that that put in that description clearly, as Moses is referred to. In the Scripture, he gets referred to as the Man of God, a man who spoke to God face to face, as a man speaks with his friend.
Go back with me to Deuteronomy 33. If we're going to hear from Moses, we need to go back to the context of the law. And the second telling of the law is Deuteronomy. It's the end of the law. And the law is similar to the Psalms, just like you could say there are five books of the Law, or you could just refer to it as the Law in its totality. Well, in the same way, there are five books of the Psalms, or you can refer it to the Psalms in total, but as you come to the end of the law, Deuteronomy 32 is a song of Moses, and we have seen many of the Psalms. We've been reading through the Psalms together as a church. We started back in August, and it's around the beginning of the school year. We've read through 89 Psalms together. My goal here tonight is to get one hundred percent attendance from all of you as we go through Book Four now in the new year, whether you've read with us or not, you've fallen behind or not, you detest our reading or not, my goal is to get you to join us here. And so many of the Psalms refer back to this song that Moses gave in Deuteronomy 32. It's clearly a reference point that a lot of David and the other writers’ minds go back to as an example of who God is and how to respond to him in worship that is worthy of him. But at the beginning of Deuteronomy 33, Moses is going to give a blessing here on the tribes of Israel. And it says, this is the blessing with which Moses, and then notice how it says it here, “The man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.” So, Moses does die. His death was just foretold at the end of chapter 32 and then Moses dies in chapter 34. So, clearly, somebody assembled all of the law together and put the part about Moses dying, or Moses was inspired to write that ahead of time, but Moses would get known by the people assembling his writings, studying them, passing them on as the Man of God.
And so, as a man who had a unique perspective of seeing the glory of God and leading God's people, often interceding for God's people in prayer, where would the Israelites be without Moses interceding for them in Exodus 32, or throughout the book of Numbers. There are many times where God is ready to judge these people for their sin. And here's Moses, the man in the gap, interceding on behalf of the people and really saying, God, what are they going to say in Egypt, if you judge these people out here in the wilderness, what are all the other nations going to say about you? God, don't judge your own people. Act in a way for your glory. Act for your name's sake. So, Moses, he talked to God in a unique way, and he, when he gives this blessing here, just jump down to verse 27 and look what it says in this blessing of Deuteronomy 33:27. We already sang this together here tonight. The Eternal God is your what everybody? Your dwelling place. So, clearly, this was a thought that Moses had in his mind.
A couple of things that we want to see from Moses’ perspective as a man of God. Number one, God is eternal. And number two, God is where I want to live, where I want to abide, where I want to make my home. If you think about Moses leading God's people, well, they've been wandering in the wilderness now, for how long, everybody? Forty years. So, God made a clear covenant with Abraham. And not only was a nation included in the covenant with Abraham, but the promise of land was included. But Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, all the slaves in Egypt, and now even Moses and this generation wandering around in the wilderness, they haven't really experienced yet that promised land, and so notice, God is our dwelling place. That's what he says here in verse 27, the eternal God is your dwelling place. And underneath are the everlasting arms. Like God is the one who's been carrying us. God is the one who's been lifting us up. He's undergirding us. He's the one holding us, and he's never going to let us go. He's got everlasting strength, everlasting arms. He is where we live. That's a clear thought from Moses, the man of God. And then, later on, Joshua, in the book of Ezra. Many other times when they refer back to Moses, they call him the Man of God. If you were on the wrong side with God, who's somebody you would want to step in the gap and pray for you. Well, ultimately you want Jesus interceding for you. But here they saw that through Moses, the Man of God, and so a prayer from Moses to intercede on behalf of the people. That's going to get a lot of people's attention, because they know that there were key times throughout the history of Israel.
Go back with me now to Psalm 90, and let's try to really study this Psalm together. Sometimes you're going to read preachers or commentators. If you listen to them or read their sermons, they're going to try to link Psalm 90 to a particular moment in the life of Moses. And I read some preachers connecting it to different passages, like Exodus 32 or Numbers 20. But it doesn't give us a clear time that this prayer was prayed, this could have been perhaps on many different occasions. In fact, maybe the reason it's written down as a Psalm is it fits for multiple occasions where you would want to pray this way. But notice how he begins with, “Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.” Hey, you are where we need to live. You are home for people wandering out in the wilderness. We may not be associated with a particular location, but we are associated with you. You are our dwelling place. And then notice what he gets to right away. Verse 2, “Before the mountains were brought forth wherever you had formed, the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting. You are God.”
If you want to take some notes, let's get this down for number one: “As you begin a new year, consider God is eternal.” As you begin a new year, consider God is eternal. God does not. fit inside our box. Okay? God should fill all that we can see. Too many of us have a low view, a limited view of God, and this idea that God is eternal, that he has never been a prisoner of any moment, that he exists outside of space and time, that he is actually the one who spoke into existence. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” So, this idea of being eternal is not something you and I can relate to. It's not something we're going to figure out by looking around at each other or by noticing what we can see with our eyes. But Moses, the Man of God, he wants to take us to “Before the mountains were birthed.” He wants to take us all the way back to before the beginning, to the everlasting to everlasting God.
And then he's going to say things about God that are going to be head scratchers. Okay, you can't figure out who God is by asking questions on chatGPT, everybody. You can't figure out who God is by your own thoughts. If your God doesn't blow your mind and isn't beyond your comprehension, you have a made up version of God, the dumbed down version of God, because God the one who actually exists in the heavens, the one who does whatever he pleases. He is eternal, and that's hard for me and you to think about, and so we have to get our mind renewed. As we get into this prayer from Moses, we want to think about someone who existed before space and time someone who is from everlasting to everlasting. Look at some of the things it's going to say. Maybe you've heard this line because. Peter quotes it, verse 4, “Thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday, when it is past,” like right now, 2025 is still fresh on our minds. And that Wow, 2025 if you really think about it, that was a lot that happened in 2025. Some might say that it was a long year. Some might say, oh, it went by so quick. To God, even if you stacked up a thousand years, which no man has ever lived that long, even the oldest man, Methuselah, he didn't quite make it that long. But let's say you took the pot the longest possible time we could try to live or comprehend a thousand years? Yeah, that's like somebody just staying up all night on watch, and then by the next morning, it's gone and over with. See your comparison of time, your reference point of time. It doesn't work with God. No, even a thousand years, that's like yesterday. That's like somebody who, oh, it was a long time. I had to rub my eyes. It was hard to stay up all night on watch. But now, now that that's over, so I'm on with my next day, it seemed like a long time, but now it's gone. Yeah, that's what a thousand years is to God. Now people, they misuse this verse all the time, and now, all of a sudden, a thousand years is like some numerology key to unlock. That's what a day means, and a day can mean a thousand years. Let's put that back into context before we make bad use of it. This is saying, think about a really long time from a human perspective. That's not even anything to God. That's like yesterday, that's like the watch of the night that's like, boom, here, gone.
That's how he is. He is eternal. And then you're going to see, as we keep going through this, oh, that we're not like that. No, in fact, in verse 3, it says “You return man to dust and say, ‘return O children of man.’” Verse 5 says, “You sweep them away, as with the flood.” Verse 8 says, “You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.” So, I want you to notice in verse 3, in verse 5, and in verse 8, there's a “You” there, if you want to underline that “You” at the beginning of those it's saying something about God. And then there's always a follow up that takes you to a further thought to develop what God is going to do. Number one, God is going to return man to dust, because that's where we came from. Number two, God's going to sweep us away like a flood. And then number three, God knows about our sins. There are no secrets with God. Everything you've ever said, everything you've ever thought, everything you've ever done, is all laid open. It's all naked and bare before him. God sees everything about you.
That's what it just says here. Here's God. He's from everlasting to everlasting. Here's God. I mean, even a thousand years is like yesterday to him, but here's you, you're going back to dust, you, you're going to be gone like there's a flood that comes in and just washes you out. You, you've got sin before this God. Let's think about it. Are you going to make it to seventy? Maybe you'll make it to eighty. But do you know that God's eternal, and you are very brief. Your time is very limited
Let's get that down for number two: “As you begin a new year, consider your time is limited.” And the reason that your time is limited is because the wages of sin is what? Death. And after God did sweep people away with a flood, he limited the number of years that they lived. And so we are here for a short time, and there is a tension between the eternal God. So, let's talk about the fact that God is eternal. It's not one of the attributes of God you hear talked about, it's what we would call an incommunicable attribute, or an unshareable attribute. It's something that is unique to God, being eternal. You and I have not always existed. We are not eternal. This is a way we cannot be like him. This is what makes him set apart. He is not like us. Now, eternal is how we would describe God. Ephemeral is the technical word of how we would describe us. We are brief. We are short term. We are here, today, gone, tomorrow. There's a big kind of contrast that you can see here in the Psalm, when you start to really consider the glory of an eternal God in comparison to him, and in consideration of him, whoa, seventy years starts to seem like a short time. Eighty years starts to seem like a very quick compared to a God whose thousand days are like a thousand years is like yesterday.
And so, go back with me to Genesis 3:19 because Moses wrote this verse. And when Moses says that we're going to return to dust, he's thinking of what happened when there was the fall into sin in Genesis, chapter 3. And he's thinking about the serpent. He's thinking about Eve. He's thinking about Adam. He's thinking about taking and eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which God told them not to do. But Satan deceived. And look what part of the curse here that God says. He starts in chapter 3, verse 14, he speaks to the serpent. In verse 16, he speaks to the woman. And then in verse 17, he speaks to Adam, the man, and he says, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground because of you. In pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life, thorns and thistles, it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face. You shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So, we've got a God who's from everlasting to everlasting, and we are from dust to dust. That's the contrast that Moses wants to make. And when Moses quotes that God will return us to dust, “O children of man” or “O sons of Adam,” Moses is taking us back to Genesis, chapter 3. So, what Moses is doing in this prayer where he's talking to the eternal God is he's reminding us of some of the fundamental truths of the history of the world and the time of human beings. Some fundamental things are that the first man and the first woman were deceived by the serpent. Eve was deceived. And then he listened to his wife, he ate from that fruit that God told him not to eat, and now there is a curse, and a part of the curse of sin is death, and a part of what is going to happen because of sin is judgment. And this fall into sin, and God eventually judging the world with a flood, except for one man and his three sons and their wives and a representation of the animals, that's supposed to remind us of what it's like to be a man and who he is God. That's what Moses is doing. Moses is making sure we're approaching God with the right frame of mind.
And a lot of people today, they're not approaching God with the right way, they're approaching a God that they can easily go to. They don't feel the weight of their sin. They don't feel like God is going to judge. No, the God that most people are referring to these days is some kind of friendly person upstairs. Yeah, and that's why the world mocks that idea, because God has been dumbed down. No, the God that Moses knows, see, he is beyond us. And who are we to come before him? See, we're just here for a brief, short time, and we're just full of toil. In trouble because we are sons of Adam. We are from dust to dust, and he's from everlasting to everlasting. So, you see how Moses is taking us way back to the beginning and establishing, do you understand that death is coming? Do you understand that after death there will be judgment, and do you all know why? It's because God knows who you really are, and if you think you've got secrets, that's just a lie you're telling yourself. That's just a lie many people have chosen to believe rather than face the reality that God knows the truth about them. They would like to deny God and live however they please, but Moses knows who God is, and he's saying we're going to dust, we're going to be judged, and God knows everything about us. That's what he's bringing us into here.
Now Peter, he picked up on this. Go over to 2 Peter, chapter 3. Because not only does Moses take us back to Genesis 3, but Peter wants to take us back to what Moses says in Psalm 90. And this is where he directly quotes in 2 Peter, chapter 3. If everybody could grab your Bible, we've gone all the way back to the beginning. Now let's go all the way towards the end. And 2 Peter 3 is definitely talking about the end. What 2 Peter 3 is describing is the future, even from our perspective. And in 2 Peter, chapter 3, if you just jump right into verse 8, he says, “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” So, what should that bring to our mind? Unfortunately, what it brings to everybody's mind is see a day somehow equals a thousand years in the interpretive matrix of the Bible. No, that's not the point. The point is a clear call out and reference to this epic prayer prayed by Moses, the Man of God, the beginning of Book Four of the Psalms that everybody should know. And if he's quoting Moses, he's establishing some of these same fundamental truths that should be clear to us and all of our children and anybody else who will listen to us. Go back to verse 3, and let's go through what Peter's establishing here, “knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, ‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.’ For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of” who, everybody? One of the facts that people want to overlook is that we have a God who created all things, right? And then it goes “and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.” What is Peter referring to there, everybody?
Second fact would be the flood. There are two fundamental facts that will affect the way people look at all the scientific data that is available to us. Do you start with a zero all the way back, or do you start with God creating a world that is mature and fully ready to go on day one? And then do you also believe that God covered the entire world with water? And why did God cover the entire world with water? Because of what, everybody? Sin. See, it was supposed to be a clear teaching thing that anybody on planet Earth and it seems like no matter where you go on planet Earth, they have some idea of a flood that took place a long time ago in many languages, in many cultures. This was supposed to be the beginning point of a relationship with God that he, from outside of space and time, created us, and then he judged us with water. And in fact, look at what Peter goes on to say in verse 7, “But by the same word, the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for” what everybody? Fire being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. So, these people acting like it's been a long time, well, they clearly don't know the eternal God. They clearly don't know the God who created. They don't know the God who flooded the world. You think God's bothered by time? They're overlooking who God is. They haven't studied the prayer of Moses in Psalm 90. They're not considering a God who is eternal. No, look at what he says in verse 9, after he quotes Psalm 90, verse 4, he says, “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness.” You think God's taken a long time? No, he's being patient toward you. He's being long-suffering towards you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. But do not be deceived. Just because God is being patient, just because today is an opportunity for every person here to repent and turn to God, just because right now, his mercy is new every morning, and he's given us grace through the face of his Son, Jesus. Well, hey, let me just tell you. Verse 10. “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be” what? What's going to happen? Everything that's been done will be exposed, all the evil, all the conspiracy theories, all the wickedness that has happened, judged, made right, laid bare.
See, this is what Moses understood as the fundamental reality of the world that we live in. And Peter much later on, he thinks, hey, don't listen to the scoffers. And let me just be honest, we have all been affected by the scoffers. We have all heard a lot of scoffing. And the truth is we might have heard more scoffing than we've studied the Psalms with Moses. And the scoffing affects the way that we think. And if you want to have a renewed mind, and you want to learn to have a higher resolution, where you see life the way that it is really with God, well, that's why we've got to get our eyeballs in the Bible, and we've got to get it from the perspective of the Man of God. So go back to Psalm 90, and what is the conclusion of this meditation here that that Moses is giving us? He's got an eternal God that he's setting before us. He's got us in our transients here, just passing through, about to be judged, about to be destroyed at any moment, just like a sigh. And then we're gone. Maybe you make it to eighty, but it's toil and trouble. And then you're gone. You don't come back. And then look at the conclusion he gives in verse 11. It's the last verse on the front of your hand out there. And here's the point of Moses bringing all of this up, “Who considers the power of your anger and your wrath according to the” what everybody? The “fear of you.” See, the “fear of you” if you've studied the Law and if you've continued into even the Psalms or the Proverbs. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of what, everybody? So the fear of God is not something that people might think that makes us want to go away from God, like, oh no, I'm afraid of God. No, the fear of God is actually something that turns you away from evil to God. Like, if God's eternal and I'm temporary, if he knows all my sins and I'm going to die and he's going to judge me, well then I want to not try to get away from God, or not try to get away with it. No, I want to come towards God. And the fear of God is the beginning of me acknowledging that he has authority over me and will judge my life. And when I know that God will judge me, and I see him high and lifted up, and I see me lowly before him, that's when I start to understand how life really is. That's when I can start to live skillfully, the way that God intended. That is the beginning of wisdom. So, here's what's beautiful about Psalm 90, is that the this eternality of God and the brevity of us are not in antithesis. No, they create a problem. Here's Eternal God, here's us, only here for a limited time. But God, the Eternal One, is actually the answer to our problem.
Let's get this down for number three. I found this quote from Derek Kidner in his commentary on Psalm 90. I thought it was so good, we'll put it up here on the screen. “See God's eternality, not as the antithesis to your brevity, but as the answer.” See, what you need is you need to know the Eternal One. You need to know God for who he really is. You need to turn to him and ask him not to have anger and wrath and not to just judge you as you would deserve for him to do. But no. See, don't see God's eternality, and then here's your brevity. It's not like meant to be this mean-spirited contrast. It's meant to actually be, “Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.” See, you're in the Eternal One is where you can find eternal life in knowing God is how you will find a way to live through all the sin of space and time, through all the death that is coming through or even that day of judgment. How will you get through all of that? It's knowing the god, who's from everlasting to everlasting, turn to him, he's the answer. Don't go eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Don't try to find your answer in this limited space and time that we have. No. Turn to the Eternal One. Fear him. That's where Moses takes us in these 11 verses. And then he gives the line that you might expect pastors like me to be preaching on New Year's Day, which is verse 12, or the first weekend of the year, if it's not New Year's Day. Here we are. “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” Does that sound like a carpe diem, seize 2026 kind of a verse right there? Now, I don't think that verse means what we put it on Instagram. Really see it in the context of the Psalm. I really want to encourage you to think through what does Moses mean when he prays to God, “Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom”? My concern is that at this point using that verse, that's where our New Year's resolutions begin. Here's how I'm going to make my days count. Here's how I'm going to make the most of the opportunities. Here's what I'm going to do to seize this limited time that I'm living in.
Notice that is not what this verse says. And if we keep reading through the rest of it, it doesn't say here's a thing, a bunch of things to go and do. It doesn't give you a list of new year's resolutions. No, the prayer is, we need you, the Eternal One, to teach us the limited ones, how to number our days. We need a mindset that you have that we don't have; we need you to give us your wisdom. That's the prayer here. And a lot of people, they miss the point. They think, yes, I'm going to go count the days, though I've been doing that actually, knowing that we were going to go to Psalm 90, I got this day planner. I actually got it when I was in Tokyo in Japan, not too long ago. Some of you were praying for me on that trip. Thank you so much. They are extremely organized. They are extremely like on point in how they conduct themselves there in Japan. Has anybody here ever been to Japan? You know what I'm talking about? Everybody is down to business. Whatever they're doing, they seemed to take it very seriously. If I walk into a coffee shop, everybody's working on something. I have no idea what they're doing, but they're all doing it very seriously. They're not talking to each other. They are focused. And I'm like, I like this level of intensity. I go to a coffee shop around here, nobody's there. They're all driving through. Nobody's focused on anything. They ain't got time for focus. They ain't got time for undistracted meditation. What are you talking about? We got it. We’ve got things to do as we're being led around by our screens. Right? And so, I was like, I'm going to get this most detailed daily planner I've ever seen in my entire life. It's got more notes that you can take, more ways to slice a calendar than anything we've ever had in this country. We'll just put it like that. And they have this page right here at the beginning. It has every single day, a box for every day, for all of 2026 but that's not how they do it. It's not just 2026; it has all of December 2025, and it's got three months of 2027, just in case you need to prepare ahead. And so, it's literally just two pages with endless boxes of days. And so, I got this right before December, and I was like, I'm going to do this. And I put “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” And now, every day, I open up my book and I give a check, and I do not feel like seize-the-day one little bit. As I check off these days, I wonder, am I even doing anything with my life that matters at all? Am I, if I were to be done today, what would even still exist from me? What am I doing that would actually be wise? What am I doing that actually God would want me to do?
See, this isn't like we like to make a checklist so then we can feel productive about doing something. This is begging a question, God, what can I even do with my life? What even is going to matter about my life if I'm going to be here for seventy years, eighty years? Did anybody ever go to college? Did anybody go to college for four years and then you showed up, like two years later, and nobody knew who you were? Did that happen to anybody else? Like, you were running the place, then you graduated, and it's like you never existed. And is that what's going to happen with my life? Maybe, is anybody even going to remember me? Wow, God, you've been from everlasting to everlasting. I'm just here for a limited time. What should I be doing with my life? Teach me. Give me your wisdom. We act like we know so much when we know so little.
See, Moses, he was described as the most meek man, the most humble man, and that's again, when I'm not quite sure Moses wrote that, if he did, it was definitely inspired by the Spirit. Because once you say you're the most humble person, you have officially stopped being that person, I think, at that point. But see, Moses, he understood. Moses isn't like, and I made my hundred and twenty years, or at least, the last of my the last forty years of my hundred and twenty I made those count. And when I died, I still had plenty of vigor to run around with the young bucks at hundred and twenty. No, that's not the way this is. This isn't like, let's go seize 2026. This is like, wow, God, you know it all, and I'm just here for so little, what should I even do? What even is going to matter? Man, if you just do what everybody else is doing, you will waste your life. If you just do what comes naturally to you, you will waste your life. If you do the things you want to do, you will hurt a bunch of people on the way to wasting your life. See, we can't act like we know how to live. God, give me your wisdom. Teach me. I need you in my heart to show me your way.
So, if you flip your hand out over, you'll see that our sermon is not ending. Our sermon has just begun. Okay? Because here's what it says. I want to just read now, after verse 12, I want to read the rest of the verses. So, flip your hand out over and you'll see starting with verse 12, all the verses there on the back side, through verse 17. Let's just look at it here on the handout. “So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!” Yes, establish the work of our hands. Do you notice how after verse 12, it doesn't go tell us well, here's what we should go do. No, it's all a bunch of prayer. God, here's what we need you to do.
Who am I? How long am I here? What am I going to do? But God, teach me to number my days. Give me a heart of your wisdom, and then it's like, return, God, satisfy, establish. It's all asking God to act. This is what I'm really concerned about for so many of my brothers and sisters in Christ, is if I say, let's go talk about what we're going to do, I'll hear a lot of conversation. Hey, let's go talk about what we should ask God to do. Don't hear as many people talking. But what's going to determine more about what happens in 2026 what you go and do, or what God does. If we even focus on ourselves and what we should do, we're missing the one thing, the best thing, the main thing. What is he going to do? That's what's going to define 2026, what is he going to do? And how can I know what he's going to do, and how can I be a part of what he's doing while I'm barely here for a short amount of time? See, we think about it like it's my life. He is the giver of life. What would he want me to do? How can I be a part of his agenda, his itinerary? What's on his calendar next year?
So, let's get this down. Three things you should ask God to do in 2026, three things that all of us can learn from the example of the prayer of Moses, a Man of God. And it starts right there in verse 13, “Return, O Lord, how long?” He's like, when are you going to turn to us? Have pity on your servants. So, there's this idea that you see in a lot of the Psalms, which is this idea of God looking upon his people. You might see it translated like, let your countenance be upon us, or let your face be upon us. So, what we're trying to create there through anthropomorphism, where we give God human terms, kind of as we're relating to him, is, what does God see when he looks at me? When God looks at me, does he look on me with favor? Does he look on me like he's pleased with me? Does God, when God's looking at me, is he smiling? Is he thinking I'm right with him, or is God seeing something else? Is God seeing me in an angry way, in a way of wrath and judgment? How is God seeing me?
And so, Moses has already established the case that God is eternal. Our time is limited. The problem is there is sin. And so, what does he ask God to do? God, we need you to turn back towards us. How long till you look upon us again? How long? Do you have that pity? How long till you come and comfort your people, till we are sorry about our sin, and then you come and you comfort us because we repent, and then you relent of the judgment. And that idea that God's now coming to us in a sorry way, or God's now coming to us to comfort us, like the things have changed, the tension of sin is no longer there between us and God. And so, God's coming to us now in a way to have pity on his servants, to comfort them. See he assumes like he doesn't just go to God like so many people casually do today, almost like they have God in such a little box that God's some kind of genie. Like, hey, I'm asking you for this. And because I'm asking you're obligated to do it. That's how most people go towards God. God is not obligated to do anything for anybody except judge them for their sins. And when you can come to God like God, will you turn to me? And this is important for us at a church where we're trying to make repentance very clear. We're trying to say to everybody, based on the fact that Jesus died for your sin, based on the fact that Jesus rose again to give you a new life, you should repent. You should change your mind and turn from your sin to God, turn from your idols, turn from your dead works and turn to God. Well, we’ve got to make it very clear, we can encourage people to turn to God. But what about God turning to us? There's another part of it. There's repentance. And what? Forgiveness, forgiveness of our sins. And so, if you're really repentant. If you're really sorry about your sin, you can't just go to God and say, God, why aren't you blessing me? No, you would go to God like, you would be right to judge me. I don't deserve to be blessed by you. But God, will you please turn to me and look upon me. God, will you please comfort me. I'm sorry about my sin. Will you please come and turn to me now? See, when the first thing we should ask God about here is number one, please have a relationship with me. God, I want to know you. I don't want to be a sinner judged apart from you. I don't want to be someone who's storing up wrath or who's making you angry every day. God, will you please turn to me. I'm turning to you. I'm confessing my sins to you. I'm asking you to forgive me for my sins. I'm asking you to lead me not into temptation and deliver me from the evil one. And so, God, will you please, in your compassion, please come and have a relationship with me. Please be merciful to me. Be gracious to me. Please don't cast me out from your presence but look upon me as one of your people only because of Jesus.
Please see, do you go to God in an assumptive way? Who are you to assume anything from God? God, why haven't you been doing this? Why should God be doing anything for you? Do you realize that when people have a problem with God not doing things, they're betraying themselves. They're showing that they actually think God is a good God, but because they can't see his goodness, they're now acting like he's not. But no, God is a good God, and you don't deserve his goodness. But if you turn to him, you can ask him, and he will turn to you. In fact, if you come to God with a broken spirit and a contrite heart, God will not despise you. He will not look down on that. He will turn to you. He will forgive you.
Go back to Psalm 80. We read this in Psalm 80. Psalm 80 has a chorus of repentance in verse 3 and verse 7 and verse 19. It's one of those Psalms that had a chorus, a Psalm of Asaph, and it was set to a certain tune for the choirmaster, and I would have liked to sing the chorus. “Restore us, O God, let your face shine that we may be saved.” So, you see, restore us. It's that same word there, shoo, a very common Hebrew word, turn to us, O God. Grant us repentance, O God. Notice what they're asking for. Turn us O God. And then what? Look upon us. See they understood maybe better than we do that there are two sides of this. We turn as we fear God, we turn from our sin to him, and then God, he turns to us and forgives us and looks upon us, and the light of his face shines on us. His countenance is ready to bless us and be good to us, because we've turned to him and now he's turning also to us. See, we don't always think that through. In fact, look what it says in the middle there in verse 14, in between these choruses where we're asking God to turn us and let his face shine on us, it says in verse 14 of Psalm 80, “Turn again, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven and see, have regard for this vine, the stock that your right hand planted, and for the Son whom you made strong for yourself.” God, I'm ready to turn to you. Turn us to you, but we need you to look upon us. And see, he's like, how long, God, until it seems like you're with your people again. How long until I feel close to you? Until I feel near to you? I'm drawing near to you. Will you draw near to me?
See, I think a lot of people look at knowing God like some kind of personal improvement project, like if I do this thing or this thing or this thing, then I’ll grow in my knowledge of God. Knowledge of God is not something that you get in your own head. That's the kind of knowledge that just puffs up. No. Knowledge of God, it means you actually know God, and he actually has a way that he is towards you. It's not a one-sided pursuit of intellectual knowledge. It's an actual experience of a relationship where I can sit before God and know he looks upon me, and he has compassion on me, and he sees me as one of his people, not someone who will be cast out and judged, but someone who will be welcomed in, someone he sees as his own, adopted in love, bought by the blood of his Son Jesus. See, do you know that God is looking on you?
You hear people talk about prayer like you're talking to the ceiling, like you even hear a lot of Christians say that, hey, prayer is something good for you to do, but like, it doesn't have anything to do with God. No, prayer is asking God to actually do something, and whether you ask him to do it or not, and the way that you ask him to do it or not actually matters into what happens in 2026. And so, is God looking at you right now? Is God just looking at you in wrath and anger, or have you learned the fear of the Lord? Have you learned the humility to come before him and seek him, his wisdom? And do you know that God has turned towards you? See, this is what all the psalmists want, even if it's dark, even if the enemies have us surrounded, even if we're going through toil and trouble, if you're looking upon us, everything will be okay. Do you know that God is looking upon you? What else could possibly matter than whether God has turned towards you or not as you begin this new year? Are you, if you're my Christian brother or sister, do you regularly go before our Father in heaven and say, here's my sins? Please forgive me. Please, I don't I don't want to let any distance come in my relationship with you. I don't want to keep this to myself as if you don't already know about it. Do you turn to him and ask him to turn to you? Now, go back to Psalm 90, and look what he prays after that. I wonder how many of us are bold enough to pray what he says here in verse 14, where he says, “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love.” When was the last time you asked God to satisfy you?
I remember in Psalm 81 where God talked about how good he'd been to the nation of Israel, how he led them out of Egypt, and God said, open your mouth wide and I will fill it. I remember back in Psalm 63, verse 5. Does anybody else remember when we read Psalm 63 verse 5, how it said, “My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food.” Did anybody have a meal of fat and rich food over the holidays? Did anybody feel satisfied? Maybe some of you felt overly satisfied. Do you believe that God can tangibly satisfy not necessarily your physical being, but your soul? Do you believe that you could feel full of his goodness? God, if you're looking upon me, if you can see me, if you're pleased with me, satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love. Look at Psalm 90, verse 14. Look at that we may what? “Rejoice and be glad all our days, make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.” It reminds me of what it says in the book of Joel, “Restore the wasted years. Restore the years that the locusts have eaten.” God, I know that you can make me glad for all of my days. I am not going to let 2026, and what it brings, set the tone for my life. I'm going to let the one who sits on the throne set the tone for this new year. And if I know that you are pleased with me and you're ready to be good to me, then I can be glad all the days of my life. Can I get an amen from anybody on that? How many of us really actually believe that? Like, when you're having a hard day, when you're going through a rough time, and you're ready to check out, you're ready to be tempted to sin, you're ready to start putting up a wall or getting angry with the people around us when we're feeling low. How many of us actually believe that if I go to God, he could satisfy me? I wonder how many people in this room really do believe that. In those moments I look to God, and notice this idea satisfy us in the morning, like I'm seeking you early, like I'm trying to let this set the tone for everything else. I'm trying to let this be the foundation for all these days that you're giving me this idea that you're going to satisfy me. So, I'm looking for you in your goodness, right? This is an intentional request. I believe that you will satisfy me in the morning. Well, what am I doing just waking up and expecting to feel satisfied? No, you get this idea that I'm seeking you, and what am I meditating on? What is the thought that I'm bringing to mind? Your steadfast love, the fact that you're a God who keeps covenant with his people, the fact that if you've made a promise, it's going to happen. The fact that the one thing I can really be sure of is that God loves me through his Son, Jesus Christ, and nothing in 2026, can separate me from the love of God that's in Christ. Jesus, my Lord, look over your shoulder. Surely his goodness, his steadfast love, they'll be chasing after you. How many? All the days of your life.
Man, so many people are riding a roller coaster of their circumstances when they could be on the constant of steadfast love that God has for them. Satisfy me early. Let it be my first thought. Let me go to it right away. Let it be the thing that affects everything else. There's a belief here that God is good and that he's going to be good to his people, that God did not create you, sent his Son to save you and be faithful to everything you've ever needed. Also, he could let you down. Now, that's what so many people think, but it's not what the Scripture says about our God. No, God, in the end, you will rejoice when it's all said and done. We will be so glad. We will have joy inexpressible and full of glory. God knows how to write a drama and a tragedy. He knows how to build tension, and he knows how to deliver a happy ending. Do you believe that? Do you really believe it? Because when you give into that sin, you're not believing it. And when you get angry at your family, you're not believing it. And when you act like you're missing out on something by seeking God and not living in the way of the world, you're not believing in his goodness.
Go to Psalm 103:1 of the great Psalms of David that will have the privilege of reading in Book Four. And these other Psalms, they put them right after Psalm 90 because they talk about the relationship with God, those who make God their dwelling place in Psalm 91, those who sing of his steadfast love in the morning and his faithfulness and night in Psalm 92. So, the reason you should keep reading the Psalms with us is because they just keep building this thought that Moses prays and then it's just more and more gets added to it as we keep going through Book Four of the Psalms that you can know God, and one of the great Psalms that a lot of people love to quote and memorize is Psalm 103 of David. And look at how it begins. “Bless the Lord, O my soul.” Bless means, say something good about the Lord. Do you know anything good about Yahweh? Do you know who he is? Do you know his name? Well, what do you have to say good about Yahweh today, soul. “Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his” what everybody? His benefits. Oh, look. Has he forgiven all your iniquity? Well, that's an amazing thing to know that God has turned his face to you and looks upon you and is pleased with you. How about who heals all your diseases? Has anybody here ever been sick and God healed you? Anybody want to say, Amen? Anybody want to praise the Lord who redeems your life from the pit? Was anybody near death or very low in your life and God lifted you up? Does anybody want to say amen to that? How about who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy? If you're walking around wearing a crown, that means you're the victorious conqueror. His love and his mercy will win. They will define you ultimately. What we believe as Christians is I will not die as I was in my sin, but I will live forever as who I am in Christ. Steadfast love and mercy will define me more than my sin. And then it says this verse 5, “Who satisfies you with” what, everybody? Good. That you could sit back at the end of the day and you could be like at the end of the year, at the end of this brief time that we have, and you could say, wow, he was even better than I thought he was going to be. And then I love this so that “your youth is renewed like the eagles’, those who know the everlasting God, those who wait on him, they will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary.” You think about all you have to do in 2026, you're going to feel very weary. You think about what God's going to do in 2026, you might find renewed energy and strength.
Let's get this down for the second thing we should ask God to do: “Please fill my soul with your goodness.” Ask God for free refills until your cup overflows. Ask God for his goodness. Now his goodness may be defined differently than your goodness. In James 4, it says, “We have not because we ask not.” It also says we have not because we ask that we would spend it on our pleasure. So, God's goodness does not equal your selfish desires. God's goodness equals his glory and what is really good for his people. But as God aligns you with his will, he will show you what is good, and he will satisfy you with it. “Satisfy me early in the morning with your steadfast love.” Who in here is waking up in the morning and praying things like that. That's what we need in 2026. And then, look at the last couple of verses, verses 16 and 17. And now when it talks about work, you'll notice the word “work” at the beginning of verse 16, and then the word “work” two times in verse 17. So, notice, first of all, it's your work. And next to your work, you should write down Deuteronomy 32:4, because “God, he's the rock. His way, his work is perfect. God is working wonders. God is working glorious things.” That's what it says. God has glorious power. Hey, show us what you're going to do. Let your people see what you're going to do. Let our kids see it. Lord, I want our kids to know how awesome you are. Show us what you're going to do. Let your work be made known. Let your hands do amazing things. And then when it comes to the work of our hands, then when it comes to what we're going to do, notice, “Let your favor, O Lord God, be upon us and establish the work of our hands.” Yes, establish the work of our hands. You see how finally, at the very end of the prayer, in the last two lines, we get to what we would actually go do in our work. But the only reason we're even bringing up our work is we need God to establish it. And our work is only going to mean anything if we have the favor of the Lord, our God upon us.
See, so are you asking God to do his work through you, or is it just about you accomplishing your goals in 2026? What if your goals aren't God's goal for your life? Have you thought that through? Is this really a work that God wants me to do? How would I even know if God wants me to do this or not? Where does it say in Scripture that God would want me to do this in his revealed will? Who are the wise, spirit filled counselors that I have gone asking, hey, is this what you think God would want me to do? Can you help me figure this out, or have you just assumed It's what God wants you to do because you feel like it's what God wants you to do? It's amazing how many brothers and sisters of mine here at this church, they think God wants them to do something because it seems like the circumstances are in alignment. No, you want to do something because the Scripture is in alignment. That perfect opportunity is a test to find out what you're really all about. And most people around here, they choose the perfect opportunity every time. They don't stick with their guns and keep seeking the Lord first, his kingdom, his righteousness, they put the perfect opportunity first over God? A lot of people do that. No, God, it needs to be your work. And we, if we're going to do anything, we need you to establish it now in Deuteronomy. And this is how it makes sense that Moses prayed this. Because when Moses was speaking in Deuteronomy, when he was writing Deuteronomy, this phrase, “the work of our hands” is something Moses would say over and over. Let me just give you a few examples. You can write down Deuteronomy 14:29, Deuteronomy 15:10, Deuteronomy 16:15, almost every chapter there in the middle of Deuteronomy, that's 14:29, 15:10, and 16:15, if you go look up those verses, what am I saying? Let's go look up those verses right now. Let's just turn back to Deuteronomy, back to the to the realm of Moses speaking, even though we have his Psalm. But let's just get back to what Moses was teaching from God to God's people. And you’ve got to see these verses, because then you'll understand what he means by “Establish the work of our hands.” And in chapter 14, verse 29 it says, “And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns shall come and eat and be filled.”
So, there's this idea that every three years, you're going to bring out a tithe, and you're going to put it in your town, and this tithe that you're going to leave in your town, it's not for you. It's for the Levite who's there serving the Lord. It's for the sojourner. It's for the orphan. It's for the widow. It's for those who don't have their own means. It's for those who are in need, and they're going to come and eat and be filled that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do. You see, in every one of these verses from Deuteronomy, if you were to study that phrase, “the work of your hands,” it's like as you're doing what God tells you to do, and what God tells you to do always has two goals in mind. It's either to love God with all your heart, or it's to love your neighbor as yourself. And so, as you align yourself with what God is telling you to do, and you're now living according to his ways, now he can bless the work of your hands when you're giving out of what you get to meet other people's needs. Now you can expect him to establish the work of your hands.
Go to the next. Chapter 15, verse 10, and it talks about, here you shall give to him freely. One of your brothers is poor. One of your brothers needs help here. Don't harden your heart. Don't shut your hand against your poor brother. Verse 10, “You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this, the Lord your God, will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.” See, God is giving, God is providing, God is meeting your needs and God is watching. Hey, what do you do when God meets your needs? Do you hoard it for yourself? Do you make it all about you? Do you spend it on your pleasures, or when you see your brother in need and you have the ability to meet their need, do you give freely? Because if you give freely to your brother, you can expect God to establish the work of your hands. Because you're not doing your own work, you're doing his work.
See, so many people are ready for the blessing, but they haven't really taken enough time to consider, am I really doing God's work, or am I just getting straight to my work? Go to the next one here at chapter 16, verse 15. This one is about keeping the feast here, observing the different feasts. It's going through the Feast of Booths is the context here. For seven days, you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, which is eventually Jerusalem, where the temple is, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be all together joyful. You're going to take a week. You're going to set that week aside. You're going to go celebrate a feast. What's the point of the feast? To remember how God is your Creator, to remember how he's your Savior. To remember how he led you out of Egypt into the wilderness. He gave you manna from heaven, water from the rock. Can you remember all that God has done for you? Take time to remember what God has done. Then he will keep blessing you. If you make it about yourself, don't expect him to establish the work of our hands. So, when Moses says that phrase, “Establish the work of our hands,” well, if you go back and study, what does it look like for God to bless people's work in Deuteronomy, it's always when you're contributing to meeting the needs of other people, God's people, or when you are giving glory to God and focusing on him, then you can expect God to establish the work of your hands. But if you put your work first in 2026, well, then you're not asking God to establish it. You're not making it about his work. You're making it about you and what you do.
So, let's get this down for number 3 of 3 thing we should ask God: “Please do your work in my work.” I want it to be you working through me. I want you to establish. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. You can try to keep watch all night long, but unless God's doing it, it's not going to matter. And so, if I'm somebody who wants my life to matter, if I'm somebody who wants to not just disappear and get swept away like so many wicked in the flood, if I'm somebody, then I come to God and I say, God, here are my days, here's my brief time that I have. I'm a sinner. I deserve to be judged. I'm going to die. God, teach me how to number my days.
God, what should I be doing? What? What would be your wisdom? We put our agenda first and then expect God's blessing. We need to go back and say, God, no, no, no, what should I be doing with my life? Teach me, show me. Give me your wisdom, because then I know you'll do your work in it. And so, I think we need to come before God in humility, and we need to pray. We need to ask him for a higher resolution going into 2026. We need to ask him to be our vision God. We want to have a high view of you. You're the eternal God. We're just here for a brief time. Teach us how to live these days out. Give us your wisdom. Let me pray for us right now.
Father in heaven, thank you for everybody being here on this Saturday night. Thank you that we could go through a prayer of Moses, the Man of God, and thank you that we could get a glimpse into your glory in this Psalm. And God, I pray for everybody here that they would want to read these Psalms. I pray for everybody here that they would say, okay, I'm going to join us for Book Four, and that they would read along with the schedule that they talk about it with other people, that they would go on YouTube and watch the videos if they want. But God, I pray that everybody would want to read these Psalms together, because we want to know you. We want it. We want you to be our dwelling place. We want to live with you. God, I just pray for those who are right now set to waste 2026 to just go do what they do and not consider you and what you would want them to do. Not Think about if you've turned towards them and if your face is looking down on them, not thinking about your goodness and being satisfied with your steadfast love, not thinking about your work. And can you bless what they're doing because they're really doing it for you? God, I pray for those who are in danger of wasting this year that you would speak to them tonight and get their attention. And I pray that we would come humbly before you, and we would not act like our calendar is already full for 2026, but that we would come before you, and we would say, God, who am I before you? I need you to teach me what to do with these little days that I have. I need you to give me your wisdom. God, let us not be like the fool who boasts in pride. I'm going to go to this place and spend such and such a time there and make such and such an amount. Let us not think we know the future. We don't even know if we have tomorrow. Let us humble ourselves before you and let us say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. I don't even know if 2026 is my next year or my last year. Father, I don't know if your Son's coming back and now is the time of the kingdom. I don't know how many more days I have. So, will you teach me? Will you give me your wisdom. I don't want to see life through a little screen of my own understanding. I want to see it from your perspective. Give me a higher resolution to see life the way you see it. Be my vision. Father. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.