The Brevity of Life
This devotional article by Rodney Miersma meditates on Psalm 39 to explore the brevity of human life and its spiritual significance for believers awaiting Christ's return. Through exegetical reflection on David's prayer for awareness of life's shortness, Miersma encourages readers to adopt a biblical perspective on mortality and mortality's relationship to eschatological hope, offering practical spiritual profit for the beginning of a new year.
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Psalm 39:4, 5 We now stand at the end of 2012 and at the beginning of 2013. The time went by so very fast. It seems such a short time ago that 2012 began. One wonders how the days could so quickly pass. But they did. One realizes too that the years...
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