This post is a follow-up message from Pastor Ben's sermon entitled "Time Flies, So What?". [Watch video]

Psalm 90 is a wake-up call to the brevity of our lives. I believe this past Sunday many of us were challenged with the call to “teach us to number our days, that we may present to You a heart of wisdom” (Ps 90:12). Here is how one man did it.

Half a century before the birth of our nation, and long before his key role in the Great Awakening, and many years before he would become the president of Princeton, or would write the many books for which he is known today, 19-year-old Jonathan Edwards penned 70 “Resolutions”, which he sought to keep his entire life.

He began, “Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ's sake. Remember to read over these Resolutions once a week.”

It would be remarkable to read them once a week, even more remarkable to keep them. They are all profound, but here are a few to get you thinking. They are listed as he numbered them.

4. Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

6. Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.

7. Resolved, never to do anything, which I should be afraid to do, if it were the last hour of my life.

23. Resolved, frequently to take some deliberate action, which seems most unlikely to be done, for the glory of God, and trace it back to the original intention, designs and ends of it; and if I find it not to be for God's glory, to repute it as a breach of the 4th Resolution.

Not bad for a teenager! If these you find interesting, I commend to you the entire list of seventy. Perhaps they will help you to more faithfully number your days.