Psalm Challenge: Day Thirty-Nine!

Have you ever read about someone who "died too young"? Maybe you have expereinced it. I sure did. When I was ten years old, I lost both of my grandpa's in the same year. Heartbroken did not even begin to explain the pain I felt. They both died too young; atleast that is what I thought before reading this Psalm. 

My new perspective is that their life was "anything but a breath". They had prupose and meaning to their life!

Psalm 39

"I said, “I will watch my ways
    and keep my tongue from sin;
I will put a muzzle on my mouth
    while in the presence of the wicked.”
² So I remained utterly silent,
    not even saying anything good.
But my anguish increased;
³     my heart grew hot within me.
While I meditated, the fire burned;
    then I spoke with my tongue:

⁴ “Show me, Lord, my life’s end
    and the number of my days;
    let me know how fleeting my life is.
⁵ You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
    the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Everyone is but a breath,
    even those who seem secure.

⁶ “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom;
    in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth
    without knowing whose it will finally be.

⁷ “But now, Lord, what do I look for?
    My hope is in you.
⁸ Save me from all my transgressions;
    do not make me the scorn of fools.
⁹ I was silent; I would not open my mouth,
    for you are the one who has done this.
¹⁰ Remove your scourge from me;
    I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
¹¹ When you rebuke and discipline anyone for their sin,
    you consume their wealth like a moth —
    surely everyone is but a breath.

¹² “Hear my prayer, Lord,
    listen to my cry for help;
    do not be deaf to my weeping.
I dwell with you as a foreigner,
    a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
¹³ Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”"