You want to know what mature thinking is.

It is pressing toward the goal.

It's figuring out what the goal is, what the goal of your life is, what your life is supposed to be all about, what my life is supposed to be all about.

And I mean getting into the thing.

Anybody hear what I'm saying to?

That is what growing up is all about.

Psalm 90, verse 10, if you want to jot that verse down so that you'll know where it's

stemming from.

As I say these words, Psalm 90, verse 10 says this, the years of our life are 70, or even by reason

of strength, 80.

And what the psalmist is saying there is that well the average life could be

around 70 years or maybe 80 if you're really strong so let's just throw that out here it doesn't mean

I don't want anybody getting nervous if you just had your 70th birthday because Because it's all about what God is doing.

It's all about what he has got planned for you.

But I just needed to throw something out there.

What could we use as a measuring rod?

And so since the psalmist said that in Psalm 90, verse 10,

we're going to go with it for just a few minutes,

70 or 80 years, just that lifespan that we might imagine living if there's nothing that

happens prior to that time that ends our tenure on this earth.

70 years, I did a little calculation, it's 25, 550 days.

25, 550 days, 80 years is 29,200 days. We've got these days, we're told the psalmist

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