Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis - How to Number Your Days: The Secret to Living with Purpose | Psalm 90 Explained with Jonny Ardavanis

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

Discover the profound wisdom of Moses in Psalm 90 about making every day count. In this episode with Jonny Ardavanis, we explore how understanding life's brevity leads to true wisdom and purposeful living.🔑 KEY TOPICS COVERED:- Why Moses wrote about numbering our days in the wilderness- The 4 attributes of God that teach us about life's fragility- How to live with eternal perspective in - Practical steps to avoid wasting your short life- Finding satisfaction in God's love as the foundation for meaningful living📖 SCRIPTURE FOCUS: Psalm 90:12 - "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom"Whether you're young or old, this message will transform how you view time, purpose, and what truly matters. Learn from Moses, who conducted more funerals than anyone in history, about living wisely in light of eternity.Perfect for anyone seeking: Biblical wisdom about time managementDeeper understanding of life's purposeComfort during seasons of lossMotivation to live more intentionallyInsight into Old Testament wisdom literature

We hear often when someone dies young, he had his entire life in front of him. He had his entire life in front of him. Even when we're thinking about the Charlie Kirk who got assassinated, he was murdered. And we say things like that, that he had his entire life in front of him. And you see there's a real tragedy. But events in our life and the scripture itself want to propel us and compel us to think about the fleeting and fragile nature of life. You have to ask God to teach you to number your days. It's about living every day in light of the reality that it may be your last, and it's to live today in light of eternity.

And the question I want to really ask is, how do we live our short life well? In this episode, Hank, I want to talk about the reality that our life is so brief and fragile. I want to talk about numbering our days. One of the realities that we see in wisdom literature, which is Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon is that it is trying to compel us to contemplate the brevity of our own life. Job says that his days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. The Psalms say that it's gone. We're here like grass. We'll talk about this more.

And then we're gone in a moment. Ecclesiastes Solomon says that life is like a vapor. He says it's like a puff of air on a cold Chicago morning. You see it and then it's gone. And then in James, the New Testament wisdom literature, he says, you don't even know what your life will look like tomorrow. I remember listening to Colin Coward on ESPN a couple years ago, and he was talking about Dwayne Haskins. Dwayne Haskins, if you remember, was the standout quarterback at Ohio State, and he was looking to continue his career in the Pittsburgh Steelers. And then out of nowhere, he died.

He died in a moment. How? Well, he was hit by a dumb truck and pronounced dead on the scene. And I remember on Colin Calhard's show, he was talking about Dwayne Haskins, and he says, it's so sad why he said, because he was only 24 years old and then the line that we hear often when someone dies young, he had his whole life in front of him. Had his entire life in front of him. We talk about that. And, you know, we say things like that whenever anybody dies young, and even when we're thinking about the Charlie Kirk who got assassinated, he was murdered. And we say things like that, that he had.

us entire life in front of them and you see there's a real tragedy but events in our life and the scripture itself want to propel us and compel us to think about the fleeting and fragile nature of life absolutely and so with that you said we're going to be kind of a diving in into some wisdom literature and i think we're going to be in psalms for the balance of this episode yeah i want to look at psalm 90 it's the first psalm ever written and the only psalm written by moses you know it's so important that we do understand the brevity of life because Jonathan Edwards used to pray that God would stamp eternity onto his eyeballs. He wanted to know how fragile life is. You know, Calvin used to say that we know we're going to die one day, but we're so tied to the transient that we live as if we're

immortal, even though one day very soon, you might pace out the end, but we're going to die. And the question I want to really ask is, how do we live our short life well? We're going to come to an answer in Psalm 90 verse 12 where it says that we have to have a proper numbering of our days in order to live a life of wisdom, meaning that when you see something happen or when you're reminded that, wow, death is tragic and everyone is going to die, unless you're thinking about that, you're not possibly living a life of wisdom. In Psalm 90, the subscription at the beginning, it says a prayer of Moses, the man of God. This is a proper title for the leader and the lawgiver, the prophet of Israel. Moses wrote this Psalm during the wilderness wanderings of Israel as they

traveled to the promised land. If you remember, God brought them out of the land of Egypt and then he told them to take the land. And instead of taking the land, they were fearful. And as a result, as a consequence, God had them wander around in the wilderness for 40 years until an entire generation died. Something I want you to understand about Moses is that Moses was the pastor of 2 million people, and he did more funerals than anybody else in human history. If there was anybody that understood the reality of death and the need to properly number your days, it was Moses. And in the one Psalm that he writes, he's going to talk about this fleeting reality of life.

I like what James Boyce says. He says Psalm 90 is probably the greatest passage in the Bible contrasting the grandeur of God with man's frailty. Now, in order to properly number our days, there's four attributes of God that I want to look at in this episode. The first is the eternality of God. Moses says, you want to read the first couple of verses

Psalm 90, verse 1 and 2. Absolutely. So it begins, Lord, you have been our dwelling place from generation to generation. Moses declares that generations come and go, but one thing remains the same, and that is that God is the dwelling place of his people. the reality of the Jewish people is that no one understands homelessness,

no one understands nomadic lifestyle like they did. They were slaves in Egypt for 400 years. And Moses is struck by a precious and profound reality. And that is that no matter where their body has been, God is the home for their soul. And then he says, in all generations, meaning that Moses is reflecting on past providences, but he's detailing for readers today

we live in an ever-changing, dying, and divided world. But Moses says one thing stays the same in that God is our home. You may know the words of that familiar hymn, O God, our help and ages past, our hope in years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast in our eternal home. He's going to get to the importance of this in a moment, but continue and read verse two for us. Maybe right before we do, it's just we're moving quickly,

but it's another reason to maybe pause. When I read that verse for the first time, and it says, Lord, you have been our dwelling place. I mean, it hits my context of, I think of a dwelling place as a home, as a place. And so you setting up really quickly, like, this is Moses writing, he's writing from the wilderness. Just another reason it's so important to be reading our Bibles in context, because you explaining Moses and his background and his context actually helps recalibrate. Like, no, my home actually isn't the structure I go to and sleep inside every night. My home is this eternal being. Again, just reading Bible and context, it struck out to me.

I don't know if it struck out to any of the listeners, but I'll keep going here into verse two. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth in the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. I lived for five years in this year, Nevada Mountains right at the intersection. I've told you this before of Kings Canyon National Park and Sequoia National Park. And in the middle of those mountains, there's a lake, Hume Lake. And I used to go up to kids and I used to say, hey, who made the lake? And they would say, no, that was made by man. A trick question.

Yeah, trick question. Gotcha. It's an 87-acre lake that lies behind the world's first concrete, reinforced, multiple arched dam. And it was used as a flume, basically, where they would store cut lumber and then transport it down to Sanger. It's a man-made lake. It's nonetheless beautiful. but then those mountains in the mountains right on the other side were right by Yosemite those mountains are made by God and I used to look up at those and go man these things are massive right

and think like Moses that these are ancient to me and yet he says they're babes they're babes to God mountains are symbols of solidity and strength and permanence and Moses just says before the mountains were born or you gave birth to the earth into the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. As some of you know, before I became a pastor and before I worked at Hume Lake, I studied at the Master's University. At that point in my life, when I was a student, I had no idea that I'd end up being a pastor, so I studied accounting and finance. But what I love about the Masters

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or the students in your life, apply. I think we'd sometimes talk about God's eternality, and this is gonna set up for us, kind of that juxtaposition of numbering our days. Moses starts with this, and you have to wonder why when Moses writes in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, is he always highlighting and punctuating the eternality of God,

When God meets Moses at the burning bush, Moses is fearful. He's gripped because the prospect of Pharaoh is daunting and taunting. And he tells him, I'm the God of your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And he says, I'm the eternal. I'm the everlasting God. And sometimes this just kind of slips off of our tongue. And I remember Sinclair Ferguson saying this at one point. He says, but he tells Moses this when Moses first encounters him.

And then here is Moses probably 40 years later at 120 years old when he's about to die. And there's this reality that you take the giant in your life, you take the Pharaoh in your life, and you put them against the backdrop of God's eternality, and it dwindles, you know, massively. It's nothing compared to God's eternity. But we continue, and this is the eternality of God. But I want to look secondly here at the sovereignty of God, which you read verse three. Yeah, it says, you turn man back into dust and say, return, oh, sons of men. Bottom line, people die.

And it says here in Psalm 90, that is because it's the sovereign decree of God. Sometimes we talk about, hey, this person died too soon. Sometimes people die young. Sometimes people die old. But the reason people die is because of the sovereignty of God. It says here, you turn man back into the dust. It's not saying we're eliminating human responsibility at all. It says it's just talking about the reality that in a world without sin, there is no death.

But now because we live in a world of sin, it is God who turns man back into the dust. In Hebrews 922 says, it is appointed once for man to die and then comes judgment. I remember when I was a boy burying a man in our church and I was one of the pallbearers I was 13 years old and at the funeral I heard earth ashes to ashes and what

dust to dust and we get that idea because it says here you turn man back into the dust so from our human experience someone might die prematurely but overall it is God himself that turns people back to dust and you and I

won't exceed that a lot of time by one day. This is how precious time is. Psalm 139 says that all of our days were written in God's book before one of them came to be. Read verse 4 for me. Absolutely. For a thousand years in your site or like yesterday when it passes by or as a watch in the night. What this means is that God super intends what happens in time. He's over time, but he himself dwells outside of it. And that's white says here for a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday a thousand years here are the empires of the last one thousand years the holy roman empire not to be confused with the roman empire the western chilukia empire the western chi dynasty the second bulgarian empire the

mongol empire the ottoman empire the aztec empire the british empire the german empire the american empire and it says here that god looks at all of those empires and says yesterday the glory in obliteration of empires are forgotten new inventions within that span are ancient history you and i are likely going to elude the pens of historians that hitchin says that the quest to locate oneself within history is as absurd as trying to locate oneself within astronomy meaning time just continues to go on and all of that time is yesterday to god and even beyond a thousand years the the lengthiest stretches of time are tiny blips on the radar to the eternal God we serve. Now, this is going to be juxtaposed now in verse five as we continue, read verse five. Yeah. And six. You have swept them

away like a flood. They fall asleep in the morning. They're like grass, which sprouts anew. In the morning, it blossoms and sprouts anew towards evening, it withers away and dries up. Three consecutive metaphors here for death. He says it's like a flood that sweeps everything away. It says here that it's like a dream in the morning. In the morning, it flourishes and sprouts anew. And it says toward evening, it fades and withers. We're like a flood just taking everything out in its past in the dry Palestinian climate, it would become so hard that when it would rain, it wouldn't penetrate the soil. So it just take out everything in its path. And this is what the Psalms is saying, death is like. It just demolishes everything in its path. It's like a

dream, meaning that life itself is like a dream. You wake up and say, what was this? that. And that is in eternity what our life will be like. It's what is that? It was so brief. I can hardly remember it. And here it says it's also like grass. Grass, it says that it flourishes in the morning and towards evening it fades and withers away. That's what Psalm 103 says. Your life and my life are like grass. Spurgeon says, here is the history of grass. Sown, grown, moan, blown, gone. And so is the history of man. Meaning that your life and my life, It's like a flood, it's like a dream, it's like grass. And that's why Isaiah says, all flesh is grass,

and all of its beauty is like the flower of the field. And he's drawing a picture from us, and we can just pause here for a moment, because God is eternal, right? Mountains are there, they're ancient, they're babes to God, we are like grass, we are swept away by the power of the flood. And he's just starting to beg the question,

don't you see how important it is to ascertain and think about and meditate upon just the brevity of your own life? Well, again, it's just striking. Moses is writing this, maybe the primary character of the entire Old Testament in many ways, wrote the first five books of the Bible and led by all accounts of humanity, one of the most event-filled, action-packed, history-changing lifetimes that's ever been. And he's penning this towards the end of his life. He's 120 years old, too. He's old. And he's drawing our attention. Of all people, he is the one who's drawing our attention.

It's as like a reader, as a listener, I'm leaning in because this is coming from the expert himself in many regards. Yeah, he lived a full life. We've looked at the eternality of God. We've looked at the sovereignty of God. Now I want to look at the justice of God in verses 7th or 12. Moses says, For we have been consumed by your anger and by your wrath, we have been dismayed.

He's just saying that this third section of the Psalm explains to us that death is sure because we are sinners. He says, you have placed our iniquities before you. Verse 8, our secret sins in the light of your presence. It just means this, at the bottom of life's brevity is the problem of sin. Just think about the context. Moses is wondering in the desert. They didn't trust God. They sinned against God.

And as a result, an entire generation died and missed out on the blessing of God. If you've ever asked the question, why are days so fleeting? Why is there so much death? We all live in a world of death because we're sinners, and God here is just. H.B. Charles says, we get angry about the wrong things for the wrong reasons and express it in the wrong way. But God's anger is a holy anger. And that's why in verse 7 says, we have been consumed by your anger. Meaning there is an element here where God is just, and that's going back to Adam, why we die.

And he says in verse eight, you have placed our iniquities before you, meaning that there is no secret sins before God. You can hide your sin from people, but the microphone is always on with God. The camera is always rolling, and you can delete your search history, but God searches every nook and cranny of our heart. And he's not just aware of our actions. He's aware in Ezekiel 115 of everything that comes into our mind. Now, he says here, for all of our days have declined in your fury, for we have finished. our years like a sigh. That's what he says. The passing of years is like a sigh. He says, as for the days of our life, they contain 70 years or due to strength, 80 years. Yet their pride

is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone. It flies away. And then he asked this question in verse 11. Who understands the power of your anger and your fury according to the fear that is due you? Big idea here is Moses understands how much God hates sin, but asks the question, understands the power of your anger, he's getting at the reality that no one fears God too much. And no one truly understands how much God hates sin. It's actually a little bit of a surprising question. As you come through, I mean, we're taking it in chunks,

but this is now 90% of the way through. And it's reaching this crescendo. Yeah. And it's a surprising question, at least to me. Yeah, and Moses is continuing, he's saying, Lord, if you're this eternal, If you're ancient, the ancient of days, if you're from everlasting to everlasting,

if you are sovereign and you allot for us a predetermined amount of days, if David says in Psalm 139, all of my days were written in your book before one of them came to be, and we're not gonna exceed that by one moment. And if God, you're so just and you hate sin, and yet Lord, we even see how much God hates sin

at the cross of Christ, he reaches this climax in verse 12. If this is true, so teach us to number our days, that we may present you a heart of wisdom. It's a good reminder for us that memory verses don't appear out of nowhere, just like you're saying in the realm of context. The question is, do you want to live a life of wisdom? Then you have to ask God to teach you to number your days.

You know, just think with me, this isn't about marking off days on your calendar. It's about living every day in light of the reality, that it may be your last, and it's to live today in light of eternity. It's, I don't know if I saw, I don't know actually where I saw this recently, but there's like these posters you can purchase, which have the number of weeks with days in them,

and they make them really small squares so that you can actually, like, check them off. And it's based on, I don't want to, it's like 80 or 85 years of a normal life. And the premise is it visually represents, like you are ticking through this. All the weeks of your life. Yeah, 100%. And I think the idea, especially in light of kind of the recent events that we've all witnessed, is you can look at that. And it's shocking when you see like a third of your lifespan, you know, colored in and you only have two thirds remaining.

Yeah. But the reality that that's actually not true. Like it's not something, you're not promised tomorrow. You're not entitled to anything. We're not granted anything. And so I just, I was reflecting on this week, like how many days remain. in my lifetime what's the amount of sand in my hourglass again it's a great encouragement because i'm not worried and a challenge yeah the lord has numbered them all to your

prior point and yet it's an important point to be considering at the forefront in a fresh way of am i living my days in light of that eternal reality yeah days are scarce you know a boxing legend won the olympic gold in 1968 and then went on to win the heavyweight championship in 1973 and then 10 years later in 1983 he filed for bankruptcy um he had lost everything this isn't rocky five this is a true story but then this boxer turned a corner in his late 40s made up all of his fortune and then some not by boxing but by marketing portable electronically heated grills called george foreman grills he is now worth was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

What's my point? My point is that fortunes can be lost and restored, but no one can have back yesterday. Once time is gone, once your days are gone, they are gone forever. And he's drawing us to just think about the reality. Don't waste your life. Don't waste your time.

We consider the finitude of our retirement accounts. You consider your inventory, our cattle, our sheep, whatever it may be. Moses is begging us to ask and begging us to consider the fleeting number of our days. So he's drawing the people through this wilderness song, so to speak. There's tombstones, if you will, all along the wilderness, not miles and leagues from the promised land, yards. This is one of the surprising things when I went to Israel, is you look at the wilderness wanderings. They're not 800 miles from the promised land. They're yards. And it's covered with bones a wasteland of bones and he's reminding them that yes god is eternal god is sovereign death is

sure judgment is sure number your days and yet the remainder of the psalm is not pessimistic it's it's filled with hope because life and death and judgment are in god's hands but so is his grace would you read for us uh 13 and 14 yes it says return oh lord how long will it be and be sorrow for your slaves, oh, satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. This fourth feature, this fourth attribute of God is His grace. And it's motivating because stewarding our time, having the brevity of life at the forefront of our mind, living for the glory of God doesn't start with a long to-do list of what you're going to accomplish. It actually starts by being satisfied, verse 14, in the morning with God's loving,

kindness. This is what Paul says compels him to live a life sold out for the glory of God. For a moment, I want to draw your attention to the reality that many professing Christians rarely exhibit any satisfaction in the love of God. And here's Moses saying, to the people, two million people, number your days. Don't waste your life. And then you're thinking, okay, how do I do that? He doesn't pull out a notebook. He says, pray this prayer. Be satisfied in the morning with the loving kindness of God. that we may sing for joy and be glad all of our days. Those days may be brief and limited, but that's where we start.

God's love, according to Moses, and according to the scripture, according to God, is not merely a truth we affirm. It's a wonder that satisfies the deepest cravings of our soul. And when you think about what do I want to accomplish in life, unless you start here, you're going to be thrown into a blender, so to speak, of my life's so short, I got to do, do, do. and Moses says you've got to start here with being satisfied. It strikes me as supremely practical because the opportunities are infinite for everyone.

I mean, you can make any decision in any moment of your day. There's this radical level of ownership that you can take in your own life. And you can, how do I decide to be this? How do I decide to be that? And Moses is totally recalibrating the focal point of, again, to your point, it's not what are you going to do? It's what has God already done? and are you reflecting with gratitude that reality?

And it recalibrates everything from that point forward. Yeah, because God's love is, again, 2nd Corinthians 5, Paul says, the love of Christ constrains me. It compels me. That's not Paul's love for God. It's God's love for Paul. And that makes him want to live to the hilt, like Jim Elliott used to say. Verse 16, it says, let your work appear to your servants and your majesty to their children.

I just take this when Moses says, let your work appear to your servants. He's just saying, I understand how fleeting life is. I understand that it is like a whisper in the wind. I understand it's like a weaver shuttle. I understand it's like a breath, Chabelle. It's gone. And so he says here, I don't want to be on the bench. I want to be in the game.

I want to live my life for something that matters. So he says, let your work appear to your servants. He's saying, God involve me in what you're doing. One of the key components being made in the image of God is that we are active. and we have a work to do. God has given us a work to do, and as long as you and I are alive and breathing, we're stewards of that.

And so Moses says, let that work, what you're doing, what you're accomplishing with the fleeting number of days that I have, let it appear to me. I don't want to live on the bench. And I might be jumping ahead.

I don't mean to if we'll get there here in a second. But the second part of that verse actually jumps out to me, and your majesty to their sons, it's a challenging verse to me as a parent. I'm just thinking, like, how often am I beholding the majesty of God to our four-year-old? I mean, and as we go through family worship is, am I sitting like, son, see the glory and the amazing work that God has laid out for us to do?

Well, that's just part of the ways that you steward life. That's 1.45. One generation commends the works of God to another, meaning there's so many things that you could get lost in on what you're trying to accomplish in this life. but at the base, it's passing the torch, not just of truth, but lotting is Psalm 145, meaning you're praising who God is to the next generation so that they're dazzled, is what I think Ted Tripp says, about the character of God. But verse 17, final verse here, it says, let the favor of the Lord or God be upon us

and confirm for us the work of our hands. Yes, confirm the work of our hands. This Psalm is leading us to an answer that helps us so that the, corpsey clutch of death and mortality doesn't just bring us to despair, but to hope. He says, let the favor of our Lord, our God be upon us. Meaning unless you have this final section, you're going to go, life is so short, life is so short, what's the point? Moses is praying, no, I want to be in the game.

I want to be on God's team. And then he says, let the favor of the Lord, our God, be upon us. And then he says something twice. He says, confirm for us the work of our hands. Yes, confirm the work of our hands. hands. He's saying, God, put my hand to the plow, and I want you to go with me. Like he said elsewhere, if you don't go with me, I don't want to go. His final testimony here is a recognition that anything he does during his brief days on earth will be of no lasting value unless it is

blessed by God. C.T. Stud is known for the line, only when life will soon be passed, but only what's done for Christ will last. That much is true, but Moses is drawing our attention to the reality that the endeavors that last are not just because we've been determined to live for God. The endeavors that last are because the favor of the Lord our God is upon us, and he's the one that confirms the work of our hands. Yes, he's the one is what Moses is saying. Well, and because he's the one who's confirming the work of our hands, it brings us back to the beginning of why.

We get to the end to see why Moses started where he started. Where did we begin? Lord, you have been our dwelling place. And it's just, it's striking me that had we stopped at verse 12 of saying that we teach us to number our days so that we may present to you a heart of wisdom, if we stop there, I'm just so thankful to Moses. I'm thankful that God wrote through Moses, this whole last section of what does that look like practically? Yeah, it means we're satisfied in his love. It means we ask that he'll enable us to be a part of his mission and that he blesses the endeavors that we're pursuing. with him at the plow with us.

You know, someone else understood the transitory nature of life and went before us as an example of what it looks like to leverage and maximize our short time on earth. It was Jesus himself who said in John nine that we must work the works of him who sent us while at his day.

Night is coming when no man can work. We've talked about this a little bit before, but Jesus lived his life on a mission. He keeps on saying, even in our study, of John, my hour has not come, my hour has not come, because he knew that he had a select allotted amount of hours on this earth. And he says that I'm on a divine timetable. I'm on a divine schedule. I have to accomplish what God has called me to accomplish while it is day and night is coming. And there's a reality that as a follower of Christ, the same is true for us. Night is coming

when no man can work. And Jesus goes before us as an example of a guy who knew that life was brief and fragile and maximized it for the glory of God. And it's also just, I mean, it's connecting as you're speaking that Jesus is also the answer to the earlier question posed of who fears God rightly, none of us, but Jesus did. Jesus did.

And in light of that fear, which is just an awe of God, In light of that, he wanted to view his days as a stewardship. David Gibson says life is on loan from God. It's on the lease. It's one day we're going back to God. We're the dust. We're going back to the dust. And numbering our days, isn't it just an exhortation to manage our calendar?

It is, as we look to the life of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a call to remember our mission, meaning that the brevity of life, the hope of the gospel, what Jesus has done for us in the gospel, compels us to also proclaim. the truth of who he is to the world around us because in the same way that our days are brief and unknown and come now you who say today and tomorrow we'll go to such and such a place and do business and such a place.

That's true for a believer, but it's also true for an unbeliever, meaning that we steward our days knowing that the people in our life that God is entrusted to us to rub shoulders with, they're going to return to the dust as well. And what determines their eternity is what they've done what they've done with the person

of Jesus Christ. And it's a practical, applicative challenge that I'm just thinking in mind of a specific neighbor. It's like we are not guaranteed any number of days with that neighbor. In many ways, my afternoon, my evening tonight is not promised. And it's a reason to seize the moment that you're given, because once it passes, it passes. Yeah, I want to close by praying the words of Moses. If I'm praying it, I'm saying,

Lord, teach me to number my days that I may present to you a heart of wisdom. How do I do that? Verse 14. Satisfy me in the morning with your love. Verse 15. Make us glad. Verse 16. Let your work, whatever you're doing, God, I want to be a part of.

And I'm also aware of verse 17, that unless you bless and shower your favor upon my life, it'll ultimately be of no lasting value because I don't want to live a long life if it's not a full life better to live a full life than a long one and so to live a full life I pray with Moses confirm for us the work of your hands

yes confirm the work of our hands thanks Johnny thanks Hank