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PSALM 90 esp. v 12
Some days are always significant - and usually they mark anniversaries –
a yearly celebration.
This morning I turn to the most famous Psalm there is on the subject of
age – a Psalm attributed not to David, but to Moses – PSALM 90.
MOSES
Of all the characters of the Bible history Moses had many reasons to look
back over his life and weigh up the significance of his life.
40 years in Egypt
40 years in Midian
40 years in the wilderness
Whenever in the course of that long life, Moses wrote this prayer he had
plenty of experience to draw on.
What he has to say is not just the ramblings of an old man – but the words
of one of the greatest of God’s leaders.
On the great scale even of earth’s history, when compared with previous
generations there is ONE CONSTANT - One HOME
There were times when Moses was acutely conscious of Him – and times
when he behaved as if God was not in charge.
That is one of the great ironies of the human condition – that man may
respond to the revelation of God – even trust in Him – and yet turn this way
and that in pursuit of other aims than God’s and in a strength man does
not have – but assumes.
If we are going to understand the way God influences our lives we have to
see Him as eternal and faithful, holy and other.
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2nd July 2006 AM
When Moses looks back at his own life, and when he examines the
momentous events of his nation’s history – he is aware next of the GUILT of
mankind, and the inevitability of JUDGEMENT
Sadly we have forgotten this in the 21st Century – but we do so at our peril.
But Moses also experienced it at first hand – I have to say that I believe he
wrote this psalm late in his life – after the failure that cost him entrance to
the Land of Promise.
Yet if we are to make sense of our world and our times and our own days –
we need to face up squarely to what THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD REALLY
MEANS.
There is so much injustice and crime and sin that seems to go unpunished
in our world. Doesn’t God care?
The Psalm becomes a fervent prayer – notice what Moses is asking for
• Have compassion v 13
I want to have a future – a dawn light of blessing here – and in the life to
come.
In His teaching, Jesus was constantly placing the emphasis upon the DAY
His words remind us that it is the DAY that is sufficient - tomorrow lies
always beyond my reach.
And to reach always backwards into the past is wrong too – unless it
enables us to make a difference NOW – TODAY.
The New Testament letters reinforce the teaching of the Old Testament
7
So, as the Holy Spirit says: HEBREWS 3 & PSA
95
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion,
during the time of testing in the desert,
9
where your fathers tested and tried me
and for forty years saw what I did.
10
That is why I was angry with that generation,
and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray,
and they have not known my ways.’
11
So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’ “
There are some who grapple with addiction and dependency who can only
live one day at a time.
He wants us to recognise our frailty and to depend upon Him for EVERY
DAY.