• 诗篇 90:12-14

12求你指教我们怎样数算自己的日子， 好叫我们得着智慧的心。 13耶和华啊，我们要等到几时呢？ 求你转回，怜悯你的仆人们。 14求你使我们早早饱得你的慈爱， 好叫我们一生一世欢呼喜乐。

• 诗篇103:8-14

8耶和华有怜悯，有恩惠，不轻易发怒，且有丰盛的慈爱。9他不长久责备，也不永远怀怒。10他没有按我们的罪待我们，也没有照我们的罪孽报应我们。11天离地何等的高，他的慈爱向敬畏他的人也是何等的大！12东离西有多远，他叫我们的过犯离我们也有多远！13父亲怎样怜悯他的儿女，耶和华也怎样怜悯敬畏他的人！14因为他知道我们的本体，思念我们不过是尘土。

摩西曾经祷告说：“求你指教我们怎样数算自己的日子，好叫我们得着智慧的心。”（诗篇90:12）在铺天盖地的新闻头条中，每天死亡人数的统计一再地提醒我们，我们都在走向死亡。人人都难逃一死：有的人早些，有的人晚些；有的人自然死亡，有的人死于这无情的病毒。但是新冠病毒可能感染人类并可致人死亡的这个事实，是我们很多人需要的一个重要信息。我们的流感疫苗和发达国家的先进医疗保障，使得我们竟自以为可以长生不老，不料一个微小到肉眼不能见的病毒，竟大声道出了人类生命的脆弱。逝去的每一天都在证明，我们不过是尘土（诗篇103:14）。

所以不出意外，在紧接下来的诗句中，摩西大声呼求：“耶和华啊，我们要等到几时呢？求你转回，为你的仆人后悔。”（诗篇90:13）看看我们这血肉之躯吧，我们真的需要上帝回转心意，止住那缩短我们时日的所有病毒和所有暴力。我们迫切恳求上帝对我们施怜悯、恩慈和慈爱，否则我们根本无法存活。一个毫无症状的病毒携带者可能在你的旁边咳嗽一下，而你的一次呼吸，或许就让你的人生从此彻底改变。上帝啊，求你怜悯！求你转回！

然而在这一切之中，摩西清楚知道我们的需要。他认得那会将我们的惧怕转化为喜乐信心的真理：“求你使我们早早饱得你的慈爱，好叫我们一生一世欢呼喜乐。”（诗篇90:14）

当Corona还仅仅是一个墨西哥啤酒品牌的时候（译注：即科罗娜啤酒；Corona也是新冠病毒的英文名称"coronavirus"的前半部分），这段经文曾经是我每天早上必做的祷告。这些日子，我依然用它祷告，但却比以前多了一份感动。这场瘟疫使我们失去了那么多，然而却没有失去上帝的慈爱。上帝那永不止息的爱是我们欢乐的源泉，让我们唱出“一生一世欢呼喜乐”这样的诗句，这“一生一世”岂不也包括如今这糟糕的日子吗？你的肉体终会消亡，但是耶稣在十字架上显明的永不止息的爱，是你得到永生的关键。

所以，你要承认自己的生命不过转瞬即逝。然后要记住，借着耶稣，你的生命在上帝里面永不会终止。

因为基督＞新冠病毒。

• 花点时间向神献上感恩与祈求

• Psalm 90:12-14

12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants! 14Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

• Psalm 103:8-14

8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. 9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. 10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. 13 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him. 14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

Moses once prayed, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12) The daily death count in countless headlines is a reminder that we are dying. All of us. Some die sooner, some later. Some pass of more natural causes, others of this ruthless virus. But the fact that corona could infect us and then end us is a message many of us need. Our flu shots and First World health care can make us feel immortal until a virus too small for the eye to see shouts of our frail humanity. We are but dust, as each passing day proves. (Psalm 103:14)

No wonder, in the very next verse, Moses cried out: “Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.” (Psalm 90:13) Given our mortality, we need God to relent, to hold back every virus and form of violence that would cut our days short. We require his compassion, his kindness, and his mercy, or we won’t make it. One clueless virus carrier could cough one time and, with one breath, your life could be changed forever. God, have compassion! Relent!

Yet in the midst of it all, Moses knew exactly what we need. He recognized the truth that transforms our fears into joyful faith: “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days!” (Psalm 90:14)

This was my go-to morning prayer back in the days when Corona was just a Mexican beer. These days, I pray it still, but with more passion. So much has been taken away, yet God’s love has remained. The unfailing nature of his affection for us is the source of gladness that allows us to sing “all our days,” these crazy days included. You might be mortal, but the unfailing love of Jesus, displayed on a cross, is the key to your immortality.

So admit how quickly your life might end. Then remember that through Jesus your life with God will never end.

Because Christ > Corona.

• Take a moment to give thanks and prayers to God