Psalm 90
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· 145 viewsLife is short. We often squander the short time we have on sin. This Psalm reminds us that we have a higher calling and encourages us to all God to guide our hands and our work.
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Author: Moses
Date: Mid-1400’s BC
Context: Wilderness Wandering
What is Time?
What is Time?
1a : the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues :
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Talk about C.S. Lewis Argument for Eternity by our being surprised at the passage of time, from Refection on the Psalms
Eternity
Eternity
Sermons, on Several Occasions Sermon 54: On Eternity
And what is eternity? It is boundless duration.
Our Place
God’s Place
Psalm 90:
Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
Everlasting
Everlasting
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You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”
For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.
For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
The 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.
Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?
quotes talking about the one day is as a thousand years.
Verse 8 speaks of our sins and God’s knowledge of all of them. The picture of bringing a secret into the light.
The Frailness of Humanity
The Frailness of Humanity
And what is eternity? It is boundless duration.
We are weak and our days are numbered. What do we do about it?
May our fragileness, our numbered days, challenge us to live our days to the utmost. What we do in this life, echoes in eternity.
What are we doing with the time that we have.
This is the only TIME that we have. After this life, there is no time. Only eternity.
So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.
Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!
Verse 12 teaches us to Number our days. The idea is to make each day count. To Know that our time is short and to take use the time that we have wisely.
Verse 16 asks that God show his works to us and the 17 moves to ask God to set the works our hands. Essentially to ask that God would help us to do the things that he would have us to do instead of us doing the things we think we should. That usually does not work out.
Remember The Context
Remember The Context
“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
Deut 6:1-15
Moses very well may have had this passage in mind as he was writing this Psalm.
What’s The Point?
What’s The Point?
Our Time Is Short
We Spend Our Time Sinning
Each Day Is A Gift
Our Purpose Is Obedience To God