Read Psalm 90:5-12. 5You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: 6in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 7For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. 8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. 10The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. 11Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? 12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Today’s transhumanist movement seeks to create Humanity 2.0. Through biological engineering we can live longer and better than ever before. Life can be lived without limits, including the reversal of aging and eradication of diseases. Death is a technicality to be overcome.
But is this wise?
The psalmist says that the wise person is taught to number their days. The wise person accepts that they are like the grass. Not in some nihilistic way that leads to hedonism or depression, but in such a way to leads to the fear of the Lord. A fear that sees death as God’s wrath, and Christ’s wrath filled cross as the door through which death becomes life.
The wise person in Christ now accepts their fate as a mere mortal as a good thing. Why? Because the reality of death causes us to honestly confront our limitations and our sinfulness, knowing that it also provides the path into life eternal, where we will begin to enjoy God forever as the chief end of man.
Romans 11:36. For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
Life is meant to be lived for the glory of Christ, no matter how short or long, whether it is toil and trouble or joy and success. To live is Christ is the true Humanity 2.0.
Prayer. Jesus, teach me to number my days, knowing that every day I am one day closer to being with you. Amen.
To Live is Christ 