Psalm 39

"...make me know ...... the measure of my days." Would knowing when we will die be a gift or a curse? David saw something profitable in that knowledge. I think he realized that to live with our mortality clearly in focus would help us keep the situations of this life in their proper priority. How angrily should we respond to the wicked? David said that he couldn't hold back his words, but the question I have is this; what type of words did he use? Did he speak in anger and attempt to reduce the wicked person into a mass of hatred? Did he pile insults on top of acqusations? What ever he said he knew it was not what God had intended for David. Such sharpe toungues is not why God gifted us to speak. I know that I need to learn when God is moving me to speak as well as the times he wants me to wait and be silent before him. God alone is the only ruler and right judge.
It took me about 3 minutes to reads this psalm; though it could also be a dirge.
Stuart