Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Psalms 39:4-5.
 So, teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalms 90:12.
Christ is our faithful high priest and forerunner in things pertaining to God, he has this to say this about himself ‘I came from the Father into the world, but I am leaving the world and returning to the Father (John 16:28) to awake us to prepare our hearts and minds that while we are now acceptable by the Father and living by him in the world, we shall also be admitted into his Father’s house where he has gone to prepare a place for us in heaven that we may be where he is. John 14:3.
The scripture promises are exceeding great and precious, so that the believer shouldn’t be asking unnecessary and foolish (out of scripture) questions than to walk and live by faith in God: to live for those promises, and to lay hold onto them by heeding the instructions and guidance of the indwelling Spirit of God who will not speak of himself, but he will guide us  into all truth – to show us things to come, as he communicate unto us whatsoever he shall receive or hear from God (John16:13): and, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after the custom of the law, then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now let thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. Lk.2:25-30.
As long as we are in the body of our earthly tabernacle, we shall always know in part (and when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 2 Kings 4:27), lest any be disquieted by inquisitive spirit (Peter seeing him says to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus says unto him, if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, he shall not die; but, if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? John 21:21-23) which can push us to take a wrong step of regrettable and damnable end like king Saul (So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; and enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. 1 Chro.10:13-14) to forcefully delve into classified celestial and divine information: such spirit seems to work to set us in contention and objection against the Sovereignty and supremacy of ‘I AM THAT I AM’, whose kingdom rules over all and he never give account of any his doings as he do what pleases him in the armies of heaven.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! Num.23:10. One of the secret things that belong to God is the accurate knowledge of time and the manner of individual’s departure from earth into eternal glory (and it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, my son: and he said unto him, behold, here am I. And he said, behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death. Gen. 27:1-2): nonetheless, there are uncommon few special cases of saints in the scripture where the departure program and time table of what death they should glorify God (John 21:19) was made known to prepare them before they exit the earth into glory such as (a): Abraham – and thou shall go to thy fathers in peace; thou shall be buried in a good old age. Gen 15:15: (b): Jacob – and God speak unto Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes. Gen. 46:2-4: (c): Joseph – and he said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Gen. 50:24: (d): David – and it shall come to pass, when thy days are expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 1 Chron. 17:11: (f): Elijah – and it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. 2 Kings 2:9: (g): Elisha – now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. 2 Kings 13:14: (h): Apostle Paul -for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim.4:6-7: (i): Peter – knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. 2 Pet.1:13-14.  
Prepare to meet your God. (Amos 4:12): eternity is set in the hearts of all men (Eccles.3:11): good or bad, righteous or sinner, great or little, wise or foolish, children or adults, rich or poor, literate or illiterate, for there is no discharge in that war (Eccles. 8:8), we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person. 2 Sam. 14:14.
Death is the process of transition into eternal realm of the spirit beings and creatures for the continuation and consciousness of life as soon as God take back his breadth to send man back to his dust. Psa.104:24. It is out question to think that death is the end of cessation of life rather than the end of man’s probation time on earth as it is given unto him to make preparation and readiness for future anticipation to meet the Creator of heaven and earth (and it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Luke 16:22-23), seeing man’s days are determined, the number of his months are with God, he has appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Job 14:5.
The wisdom of God is the wisdom of the scriptures which is able to make anyone wise unto eternal salvation through faith which in Christ Jesus, if we should keep in mind those things we’ve heard and learnt from the holy writs to make us complete and perfect in all the will of God, not walking in the imaginations of our deceitful heart, neither been sway around by any of the damnable concept of world’s belief’s and fantasy of gaining heaven without the holiness of God in Christ Jesus: (a) God hates those who are ever learning, but never able to come to the transformative knowledge of truth – from such you should also turn away. 2 Tim.3:1-7: (b) he hates foolish and unlearned children whose ignorant shall be their ruin: the wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools. Prov. 3:35.
The word of God by which the heavens and the earth were made is the same word which by the gospel is designed by God as the atlas to guide and bring his redeemed children in Christ Jesus on earth in safety to heaven – I have given them your word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:14.
Is the word of God not the word of his patience? Rev.3:10. The righteous man, unto whom Christ is made wisdom shall by all means and at all time keep himself in the love of God to abide daily in his word in order to manage his conducts and direct his affairs by the scripture to escape from destructive pathways (Psa.17:4) for God’s sure end of destination (thou shall guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Psa.73:24) in their present preparation to meet God in glory.
Do you want to know your end – the measure of your days and your frailty which is like the grass which grows up and flourishes, in the morning it flourishes, but in the evening it is cut down, and withered? Search the scriptures. Psa. 90:5-6. As the proverbs goes, the way you lay your bed, so you lie on it: the manner you are going to end your life with God is determined by the way of your present walk and life before him, if it is biblical or not – you must accept the consequences of your present lifestyles after transition to the realm of eternity (eternal life or eternal death), therefore, it is right time to apply your heart unto wisdom. Philippians 1:27.
The living knows that they shall die, but how many are wise set their focus right in an undivided (Hos.10:2) heart before God in truth like King Hezekiah? 2 Kings 20:3. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning (Eccl.7.4): sorrow is better than laughter, for by a sad countenance the heart is made better. Eccl. 7:3. Note: as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing (2 Cor.6:10), rejoice therefore with trembling that your name is written in heaven with this daily assurance that you are getting closer to the final day of your walk on earth when you will finally be at home with the Lord: as long as you are in the realm of faith, you will not see him as he is, nor be made as he is: but when faith has finally triumphed over death, then shall we will see clearly, and know as you ought to know.
Spiritually speaking, it is good to be a man of the tent like our patriarch Jacob was, and not the man of the field like his oldest brother –Esau. Gen.25:27. The former, though he struggles with his flesh, has the grace and ability to adapt to providence, continually followed after God in attachment to dwell in the house of God, and be satisfied with God’s countenance. Esau, fully control by his emotions and flesh, ignore godly and wise reasoning of heaven to live for now, in profanity with all uncleanness: lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Heb.12:16-17.
 Examine yourself in the light of the scriptures to ask God to deliver you from any wicked way into the way of everlasting. Do not wait until he suddenly announce the numbering and counting of your days to your own face (Dan.5:26) for it will be too little, too late. There is no win win situation on the issue and affairs of your life between God and Satan. It’s either God win over everything in your life. You cannot have Christ in you as the hope of eternal glory to keep the works of the flesh – the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, for which things sake, the wrath of God is coming upon disobedient children: you cannot gain with God and gain with Satan: whosoever commit sin is of the devil.
Had Moses worked on his anger and begged God for grace to remove its evil yoke from his neck, his life should not have been short lived, but he would have fulfilled his ministry and lived beyond the age of an hundred and twenty years. How many are wise enough to keep working on themselves like Apostle Paul will keep his body under subjection (1 Cor.9:27) in their walk by the wisdom from heaven, which is first, pure (James 3:17) as personal responsibility to self- purge from worldly lusts and sinful carnal desires (2 Tim.2:20-22): to purify their hearts and purge their lives from the defilements of the heart which make man unfit for heaven (and he said, that which cometh out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Mk. 7:20-23): blessed are the pure in heart, says Christ, they shall see God. Mt. 5:8.
What is the measure of your day? The measure of your day is now, this moment, this time, and this hour! Now is the acceptable day, today is the day of salvation – today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart. Present peace with God should be sought in our daily walk, by keeping faith and good conscience to assure our heart in readiness, that come what may on earth or on us, whether we live or die, we might be accepted before him.
The angels in heaven do rejoiced of the day you came into the kingdom, not of the day you were born on earth. You should know that your birthday is not as important to God because the day of death is better than the day you were born. Eccle.7:1. When your days are declining on earth, instead of looking forward to the days to come, you are looking backward to celebrate the past? Do any of the earthly soldiers celebrate on the battle field before the last enemy is conquered? The wise will set his mind on that which keeps the heart in a better disposition of seriousness and thoughtfulness in regards to his responsibility and accountability before God as a wise and faithful servant will do: be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Jam. 4:9-10.
 If you are bold and broken enough in Christ Jesus, and you want to make a feast, call sinners and the poor people around you (but when thou makes a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just) to throw a Levi’s feast (and after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, follow me. And he left all, rose up, and followed him. And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. Luke 13:13-14) to celebrate and rejoice for the day that you became born again, when Christ came into your life and have your name is written in the book of life – good, but if not, let it be. 
King David once says, there is a step between life and death (1Sam.20:3): whatsoever God put in your heart to do, do it right now, and do it quickly, the night can dawn on you while it is yet day on earth to find yourself waking up suddenly in heaven, do not to put off until tomorrow, what you need to do or say now– not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord (Rom12:11): anything can happen at any time (for surely no man knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them. Eccles. 9:12) lest any should senselessly boast of tomorrow which they have no power over, except it pleases God  (go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. James 4:13-16) in whom we live, and move, and have our being to bring you into the next day. Acts.17:28.
Keep doing everything well as if it’s your last work on earth to do. Keep ordering your speech or word rightly as if it’s your last word to speak on earth (the tongue of the wise uses knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness (Prov.15:2), for to him that orders his conversation rightly, shall God show and bring into his eternal salvation. Psa. 50:23. Keep conducting yourself wisely, proper and genuinely before others in Christ Jesus and in the world (Phil.2:14-16) as if today is your last union with them on earth. Continue to treat others nicely and very kindly as if it’s your last kindness towards them on earth. Whatsoever thy hand finds to do, do it with you might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goes: these are parts of your wisdom application to heaven as you number your days before God. Eccles.9:10.
Blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see God. The wisdom from heaven is first pure (Jam. 3:17), but fools make a mock at sin. Prov.14:9. What kind of end do you expect to arrive at death into eternity if you are presently sowing to the flesh by walking in it? If, as a Christian on his way to heaven, you are in the broad way and wide gate, what other end do you think you’ll ended up into than destruction in eternity? If you are presently building on sand (calling lord, Lord, but not doing his will – not living by his word, not obeying the voice of the Holy Spirit), how do you expect Christ to accept you as one of his sheep at the end? Mat. 7: 24-25.
The Sovereign and eternal architect has given you the drawing plan of your life’s end from the beginning if you are willing follow his good plans as designed in his word (every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Heb. 3:4): but if you choose to make another plan for yourself, to live outside the word, the end of the building (you are the house of God, the habitation of God thorough the Spirit) will not be as he intended it to be. What end should you expect, if by now, you have not possessed the tongue of the learned, not speaking rightly to order your conversation aright, how do you expect God to show you his salvation and admit you to heaven with your corrupt communication, evil speaking with jesting which are not convenient, for which sake his wrath is coming on disobedient children? Psa.36:3. Col.3:6. In your patience, you should possess your soul as iniquity shall abound, but the love many shall wax cold: are you wise enough to understand that you must prepare yourself to go an extra length in your walk with Christ in order to have a better end with him – a better resurrection, lest you be discouraged and faint in your mind? Yet a little while, he that shall come, will come, and will not tarry. But the just shall live by faith: if any man draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Heb.11:35.
Is your religion pure and undefiled? James 1:27. Is your Carmel broken enough to enter through the eye of a needle, that you might enter heaven? Or, do you think you can deceitfully serve two to three masters (flesh, and the faded glory of the world, and Satan) in hope of a better hope that does not put to shame at the end? What other end are you expecting now, if you won’t at this present time separate from the world’s conformity and friendship which is abhorrent to, and enmity against God?
Everyman at his best state is altogether vanity! Do you think that your present pride and haughtiness of your heart and of your eyes in your daily walk of faith are good enough to reserve you a place with him that dwells on high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones? Blessed are the meek, first, they shall inherit whatever God has for them on this side of Canaan; afterward, they shall be given an abundance entrance into the everlasting kingdom of God. Put on therefore, as the elects of God, holy and beloved, humility (Col.3:12): mind not high things, but consenting to the humble people in the Lord (Rom. 12:16): very shortly, the humble shall be lifted up and get promoted to heaven. Micah 6:8.  
One of the characteristic features of the wise is their patience (Heb.10:36): they are gentle and submissive to God in whatever season of life (James 5:11) while they remain consecrated to doing good as they commit the keeping of their souls unto God as unto a faithful creator. If heaven is not your priority (the eye is the light of the body, if your eye is single, your whole body shall be full of light), to labor for the meat which endures unto eternal life, what else? Is there not a big problem on your part?  It is either your whole body is full of light with no dark part, or the light which is in you is darkness, but if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? Mt. 6:22-23.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent (Prov.16:21) because they work and live now towards the quality of the end they hope to attain or achieve in the Lord (not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. Phil.3:12-16), living in all holy conversation and godliness, striving lawfully and diligently that they may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. Mt.5:29. 2 Pet. 3:11-14.  
The text before us shows that your calendar age is not very important to God (behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.. Psa. 38:4. Job 32:9), but what matters the most is the fulfillment of his purposes in your life (be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of God is. Eph.5:17), it doesn’t matter if someone have lived a short or long period of existence on earth.
Longevity is a promise to the righteous (Psa. 91:16), but sometimes, the righteous perished, not going to his grave in full age like ripe corn reaped in its season (Isaiah 57:1), while the wicked prosper and sometimes live long (Eccles. 8:12. Job 21:7), but the wisdom of the righteous in the hope of eternal life after death is to labor now as unto the Lord, that whether absent from the Lord or present with him, he may be accepted of him. Titus 1:2. The wise shall not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good, lest they should reap the fruit of wickedness: remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off? Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. Job 4.7-9. Psa. 37:8.
Towards the end of Moses life, God gave him a lengthy prophetic song to warn the Israelis against future rebellion with this abrupt remark, O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! (Deut. 32:29), that is, to consider their future rejection of a rebellious lifestyle in their earthly Canaan, or to consider what shall be the reward of the righteous and submissive lifestyles to confirm them as the inheritors of his holy mountain – celestial Zion, the city of our God. Tentatively, we heard Moses petitioning God once again from the text before us – teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom – to help us to spend them as we should. We should take time to seek the will of God in all things, because failure in anything outside his will, can lead to a serious, fatal damage in our relationship with him: the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way (his ways in the Lord, the ways of God), but the folly of fools is deceit. Prov.14:8.
Terrestrial glory is a faded and superficial splendor (Luke 4:6): it is not the glory that follows us to the grave, not to think of having any purpose of use or interest for us in heaven (Psa. 49:17): if we are not presently and wisely investing for our future and eternal profit in heaven, where thieves do not break through to steal (Mt. 6:19-20), where then is your heart taking you? Note: the mouth of man does not only speaks from the abundance of his heart, but the pattern of his lifestyle and his pursuits with other priorities in life is likewise influence and divert from divine purpose and glory if he failed to keep his heart with all diligence – if he failed to set his affections on things above, and not on things on earth. True wisdom lies in the present pursuit of the heavenly city, not by mere confession, but by showing the mentality, comportment, attitudes, behaviors and lifestyle of them who are seeking and presently living for a better country, whose foundation and maker is God (Heb.11:16): for here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb. 13:14.
God finally fulfilled his promise to bring the Israelis to the Promised Land of earthly Canaan to enjoy the fruit and the blessing therein (for when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant. And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore. Deut. 31:20-21), but of what eternal values are those earthly blessings, wealth and inheritance (for what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Mk. 8:36-37), if the enduring substance of the eternal city street (Heb. 10:34) made up of pure gold is missed or lost because of their unfaithfulness in the present unrighteous mammon – misappropriation and misuse of earthly possessions and blessings committed to their trust to try them? And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:9-13.
Seek for wisdom and power for victory from God in your relationships, both with the unbelievers (walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Col. 4:5) as well as the brethren in the church. While the mixed multitudes (the uncircumcised Egyptians) which followed the Israelis out of Egypt into the wilderness in hope to the promised land were responsible for the destructions and deaths of many of the Jews in the wilderness, the Israelis themselves were responsible for the failure of Moses to make it to Canaan at of the waters of strife – warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 1 Thess. 5:14. You must know how to sharply rebuke to resist or act wisely to separate friendly from anyone who is acting as a stumbling block of sin in your walk to heaven. Christ rebuked Peter because his suggestion was from Satan, not to fulfill the purpose and interest of God (Mt.16:22-24): but Abraham, in order to do all things without murmuring and disputing before God (Philippians 2:14-15), wisely seek peace with Lot by asking for a peaceful and friendly separation from him.
Who knows the power of your anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Psa.90:11. God chose to judge and chastise Moses to deprive and disallow him from entering into the earthly Canaan (Deut. 32:48-52), so that he might enter into eternal rest (but when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 1 Cor.11:32): beware of men, be wise as serpent, but gentle as dove.