How to Number Your Days: The Secret to Living with Purpose | Psalm 90 Explained with Jonny Ardavanis
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Jonny Ardavanis
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
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 management
- Deeper understanding of life's purpose
- Comfort during seasons of loss
- Motivation to live more intentionally
- Insight into Old Testament wisdom literature
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| 0:00.0 | We hear often when someone dies young, he had his entire life in front of him. |
| 0:05.8 | Even when we're thinking about the Charlie Kirk who got assassinated, he was murdered. |
| 0:10.8 | And we say things like that, that he had his entire life in front of him. |
| 0:14.4 | And you see there's a real tragedy. |
| 0:16.2 | 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. |
| 0:24.6 | You have to ask God to teach you to number your days. |
| 0:28.6 | 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. |
| 0:36.6 | And the question I want to really ask is |
| 0:38.6 | how do we live our short life well? In this episode, Hank, I want to talk about the reality |
| 0:50.8 | that our life is so brief and fragile. I want to talk about numbering our days. |
| 0:57.5 | One of the realities that we see in wisdom literature, which is Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, |
| 1:02.5 | and Song of Solomon is that it is trying to compel us to contemplate the brevity of our own life. |
| 1:08.8 | 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. then in james the new testament wisdom literature he says |
| 1:29.0 | you don't even know what your life will look like tomorrow i remember listening to colin |
| 1:34.0 | a couple years ago and he was talking about dwayne haskins dwayne haskins if you remember was |
| 1:39.1 | 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 |
| 1:48.1 | How well he was he was hit by a dumb truck and pronounced dead on the scene and I remember on Colin Calhord show he was talking about |
| 1:56.5 | Duane Haskins and he says it's so so sad why he said because he was only 24 years old |
| 2:04.2 | and then the line that we hear often when someone dies young he had his whole life in front of him |
| 2:08.7 | had his entire life in front of him we talk about that and you know we we say things like that |
| 2:14.5 | 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 whenever anybody dies young, and even when we're thinking about the Charlie Kirk who got assassinated, he was murdered. |
| 2:21.0 | And we say things like that, that he had his entire life in front of him. |
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