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Introduction
Snake in garage - Staci left me alone to save the house.
Not how I wanted to spend my Friday afternoon.
Lots of days that don’t go as planned.
BUT, a lot of time we GET to plan.
Are we using the time God has given us well?
Are you wasting your time, or are you using your time in a way that honors God?
Psalm 90 - helps us to think about time, who is ultimately in control of time, and how we should view and use our time.
An unexpected author - Moses! Oldest Psalm in the Bible.
Why is there a psalm by Moses in the Book of Psalms?
We’ll answer that shortly.
Moses knew what it was like for time to NOT go as planned.
He was tasked with leading the Hebrews out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.
The journey was supposed to take 11 days.
Forty years later, Moses would die in the wilderness along with every person who came out of Egypt with the exception of their children and grandchildren.
Wasted time on complaining and idolatry rather than using time to walk by faith.
Moses did NOT envision that he would spend his time leading a complaining group of people walking around in circles for 40 years!
How do we not WASTE the time God has given us?
Three ways we can make the most of our time instead of wasting our time.
I need to know that God holds all time in His hands.
Why a psalm of Moses in the Book of Psalms?
Starts book 4. Theme: “God is still King over all the world.”
Book 3: “How could God abandon his king and his people?”
God has not abandoned his people in exile.
He’s at work to bring about His purpose.
Book 4 starts: Remember Moses.
No deliverer greater in Israel’s history than Moses.
The Exodus - nothing in the OT compares to what God did to use Moses to bring His people out of Egypt.
Israel’s greatest deliverer knew what it means to live outside of the land of promise.
Moses felt like the people in exile.
“This is not how life’s supposed to turn out.
Wandering around the wilderness?
This is not how I wanted to spend my time.”
People in exile: “Exile in Babylon.
This is not how life’s supposed to turn out.
This is not how we want to spend our time.”
The exiles needed to sing the Psalm of Moses!
Psalm 90: When your time on earth is not what we thought it would be - we need to sing the psalm of Moses.
vs. 1 - “Lord you have been our dwelling place.”
Wandering the wilderness looking for a home - complaining about God not being good enough.
Not enough food, not enough water, etc.
Yet God provided… wasn’t good enough.
“Let’s go back to Egypt.”
Not only complaining, but turned to idolatry!
Worshipped a golden calf when Moses was on Mt.
Sinai.
How much time did the Hebrews waste complaining about what they didn’t have instead and turning to idolatry instead of spending time worshipping the ONE they did have?
And then the audacity to complain when the consequence of their rebellion was wandering in the wilderness?
“Lord, you are our dwelling place.”
That’s what they missed - it’s what you miss.
Life is about abiding in the ONE who created you and loves you.
NOT about selfishly using our time to try to get what we want out of life.
Moses: “We can’t forget who you are - eternal.”
You and I waste a lot of time because we forget who GOD is - eternal - above time and holds every second of your existence in His hands.
God is eternal: Sovereign over all time and all history.
He sees it more clearly and acts in it more decisively than you can ever act.
He has ordained time.
He is working in time to accomplish His purpose.
All of time belongs to Him.
To eternal God - a thousand years are like a few hours of the night.
God is eternal, but you are not.
You get a few short years - He will return you to dust (vs.
3).
The eternal God holds your life in His hands.
He will eventually end your days on this earth (vs.
5-6).
This gets to the basic questions of life: Why am I here?
What am I supposed to do?
If God is eternal:
You find your reason for existing in His story.
Life is not your story.
It’s His story.
It’s a waste of time to try to live your life outside of His story.
What Hebrews did in the wilderness.
AND, what they did in the Promised Land - what led them into exile.
Using time to live for their desires.
Why do you exist?
Because in eternity past God determined to create a people who would live to worship Him.
That’s the ONLY reason why you exist.
You find your purpose in His purpose.
What am I to do? Live for His glory.
Rom.
12:1-2.
That’s it!
Because of what the eternal God has done for you to bring a sinner like you into His family, you live your life in response to Him.
You and I spend way too much time focusing on secondary questions: “Where should I live?
What should my career be?
What kind of house should I buy?”
Primary question every day: “How can I use whatever God has given me in this moment to live for the glory of God?”
I need to make the most of the time God has given me.
vs. 7 - 11 not very encouraging.
Moses thinking about his sinfulness and the sinfulness of his people.
“You know who we are, and we know who you are and it terrifies us!” What did God see?
He saw their complaining.
He saw their idolatry.
He saw their lack of belief.
Moses knew the terror of God.
Ex. 19 - The fiery presence of God descending Mt.
Sinai - touch the mountain and die.
Or, 250 sons of Korah in Numbers 16 that the earth swallowed up because they had rebelled against Moses, God’s leader.
God doesn’t play.
He takes our rebellion seriously.
He should be feared.
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