It’s good to think about death. What? That’s doesn’t sound true at all. We do everything we can to avoid thinking about death. We take vitamins and use sunscreen to push off death as far as we can. We’re locked up in our homes to keep death from coming to us and our neighbors. We don’t like thinking about death at all! Yet, wise old Moses wrote this advice in God’s Word, “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). It’s good to think about death.
Why? Thinking about death makes us wise. The thought of death reminds us of the frailty of life. Earlier in this psalm, Moses wrote, “You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning—though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered” (Psalm 90:5-6). You and me? We’re grass. Here today. Gone tomorrow. Wise people understand that. Why? Our frailty leads us to look for the eternal. It’s not found in you or me or in anything we do. It’s found in the words and works of God. May the coronavirus help make us wise. As it reminds us of the frailty of life, may it teach us to number our days, so that we wisely look to Jesus and his salvation for eternal life.
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