As calendar years change, Director of Discipleship Paul Arneberg marks the milestone by reflecting on the brevity of life and the need for the Lord’s mercy and eternal work in and through our lives. Before launching into Psalm 90, he opens with illustrations of numbering the days of his beloved cat and the devastating experience of losing a parent to death in childhood. Paul outlines this sobering yet hope-filled psalm—“A Prayer of Moses, the man of God”— as follows: God is Eternally Praiseworthy (vv. 1-2); We are Lamentably Lost Under God’s Wrath with Numbered Days (vv. 3-12); and We are to Pray for Wisdom, Compassion and the Lord’s Favor that Our Work and Lives Be Established Forever with Him (vv. 13-17). The gospel of Jesus is the answer for turning our temporal lives into eternal LIFE! “Only one life, ‘twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” —C.T. Studd