Psalm 90:12

“So teach us to number our days”

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. PSALM 90:12 (ESV)

How time flies. Tomorrow is the start of December 2025 and in a month, 2025 will become history and 2026 will be upon us.
December is a busy month for all of us—the church with Christmas services and programs, visitations, baptisms and more; those at work grappling with year-end accounts and final spurts of business stimuli; while families busy themselves with holiday plans.

Before 2025 comes to a close, perhaps we can take some time to look back and reflect on the things we’ve experienced, the journey we’ve taken this year. Did you experience God walking with you, giving you a deeper sense of His faithfulness and presence? Journal your insights. As much as you can, review your days in 2025 and bring them before the LORD. Lay bare your heart and mind before Him, presenting your thanksgiving and joy, as well as disappointments or hurts, for Jesus hears and He will speak into your heart. A bruised reed He will not break and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish; He will surely point the way and guide your path so that you will gain new strength and mount up with wings like eagles.

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. (Ps 90:12)

When we review the past year’s life, work and service in quiet contemplation before God, it is as Moses said “So teach us to number our days”. May the Lord help us to have a heart of reverence for God and to put Him at the centre of our evaluation of how we’ve lived this year. He is the Lord of our life, the faithful, merciful, ever unchanging God.

“That we may get a heart of wisdom”. We must realise that life is limited and unpredictable, and God is our only source of strength and the One we can depend on in this journey. If we always look to Him, the Lord will become the source of our joy, strength and wisdom.

Having looked back on 2025, do you have any goals and prayers to bring before God for 2026? I encourage all of us to put what Jesus said is the Great Commandment as a priority for our lives: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbour as yourself. Write down action points as your response to this Commandment—for eg. reading through the Bible in one year, daily devotions, perusing Christian literature, participating in prayer meetings and church ministries, sharing the gospel with pre-believers and more.

A person with wisdom knows how to number his days. To continually check himself, being alert to God’s will and aligned to the Lord’s heart. God will give him a heart of wisdom. May the Lord lead us into a life of knowing Him deeper, growing in maturity, tasting His grace, experiencing His love and living for Him!