Word for the Week

Another Year Ends: Every Year Counts

Week beginning: 27th December, 2020 | By Andrew Myers | St Albans

A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:4,10 (NIV 2011)

Another year ends. An unexpectedly difficult year, but still it ends.

Psalm 90 shows the sharp contrast between the Lord of Eternity (v2: "from everlasting to everlasting you are God") and mortal man (v10: "our days ... quickly pass and we fly away"