“ O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! ” ( Psalm 39:4 )     I recently ordered a new phone for my wife. I really didn’t want to. Not because she doesn’t need a new phone (because she probably does). It’s mostly because new phones are really expensive, and I simply don’t want to spend that much money. We tend to keep our phones as long as we can, but, her phone (in “phone” years) is technically old, and it doesn’t work

“ One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in His Temple…Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me! You have said, ‘Seek my face.’ My heart says to you, ‘Your face, LORD, do I seek.’ Hide not your face from me…I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living! Wait for the LORD; be stro

“ Then Peter came up and said to Him, ‘Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times…So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. ” ( Matthew 18:21-22, 35 ) When I was around 20 or 21 I was driving to a Bible study and as I drove I was praying. As I was praying, I found myself asking the Lord