The Gospel and Moses

Introduction:

Who can say this is your favorite Psalm? Hoping to change that.

So excited I skipped Psalm 89 to get to it.

A Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 3 (90–150): Commentary Composition and Context

There is no more appropriate setting for the writing of this psalm than the time when a whole generation would die by God’s wrath against sin, and the next generation would sense the need to seek God’s favor, learn how to live wisely, and submit their work to him for his blessing.

A Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 3 (90–150): Commentary Summary

Summary

Contrasting God’s eternity with mankind’s transitoriness, and acknowledging that man’s days quickly pass away in God’s wrath, Moses prays for God’s compassion to instruct them in how to use their time wisely and thereby establish the work of their hands and replace their sorrows with joy.

Psalm 90 (KJV 1900)

A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

7 For we are consumed by thine anger, And by thy wrath are we troubled.

8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

12 So teach us to number our days, That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord, how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.

16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory unto their children.

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

God is our dwelling place

Psalm 90:1 KJV 1900

1 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

We will not number our days unless we are taught

As creatures who have eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11), we are slow to learn the lesson that life is a vapor. Life in the moment feels sturdy and secure, and we often act as if it might go on forever. And so we rarely see the work of our lives in the bracing light of life’s brevity.

Numbering our days begins with numbering this day: this unrepeatable, God-given 24 hours, filled with opportunities to labor in the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 KJV 1900

11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

What were you doing when it became 2000. We realy counted down to y2k

calamities bring death close

Psalm 90:3 KJV 1900

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Psalm 90:5 KJV 1900

5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Psalm 90:9 KJV 1900

9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We spend our years as a tale that is told.

Life seems meaningles to many

Ever watched a kid build a sandcastle to close to the water. That is the only place to build.

2 Peter 3:10–11 KJV 1900

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Now in Jesus our lives have meaning

1 Corinthians 15:58 KJV 1900

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Only God can take this dying seed called life and make it bear fruit that lasts for eternity.

Psalm 90:17 KJV 1900

17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.