May we spend our time on what truly matters. In fact, God exists outside of time because he created time when he made space and the world we live in. It reminds us that God doesn’t reckon time as we do. He builds upon Moses’s thought and says that to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day.
The disciple Peter has this passage in mind when he pens his second letter.
Click To Tweet Peter Writes about a Thousand Years This doesn’t mean to pack every moment with busy activity, but to use our time wisely, investing in pursuits that matter, on what will have the greatest impact. We only have so much of it., so we don’t want to squander it. We need to use that time wisely and make it count. That’s probably why Moses wants us to count our days to remind us of our typical lifespan. But to us time places limits on our physical existence and on our future. Time takes on a different meaning to someone who has a never-ending supply of it. So it is with our God who is eternal, who lives forever. However, Moses also writes that to God a thousand years flashes by like a day would seem to us. I wonder how old he was when he wrote this Psalm. He lived forty years in Egypt, forty years in preparation, and forty years leading God’s people. This is interesting since Moses lived 120. He also says that people tend to live seventy years, perhaps eighty. He tells us to number our days so that we might gain wisdom. Also consider Moses’s song in Deuteronomy 32:1-43 and his blessing in Deuteronomy 33:2-29. It may be the oldest of them all, the first Psalm ever written in the Bible. Though King David wrote many psalms, the book of Psalms also includes the work of others. Time Is Different in the Spiritual Realm Than What We’re Used to in the Physical
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