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4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days. what it is: that I may know how frail I am.5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreath; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. Psalm 39:4-6 The psalmist prays not to know his last day but for wisdom to understand the shortness of life, how frail man is in this world, and if he lived a thousand years, it would be nothing compared to God's existence. Life is short, but much can be done. Our Lord Jesus in three years saved the world. We are all on a ticking clock. Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge to the best outcome. It comes from God who possessed it before anything was created. This Psalm was written 1015 years before Jesus was born. The psalmist is asking for the wisdom in Matthew 6:19-21, Jesus instructs us to lay up our treasures in heaven, where they are safe, for we can take nothing from this earth. For where you store your treasures, that is where your heart will be and where your heart is, that is where you will be. Amen.