SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
5/22/2012 9:55:16 AM
My Worship Time Focus: We Are
Believes and the Future is Our Friend
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm
90:13-17
Message
of the verses: We will look at the
last section of Psalm 90 this morning.
We Are Believes and the Future is
Our Friend (vv. 13-17):
“13 Do return, O LORD; how
long will it be? And be sorry for Your servants. 14 O satisfy us in the
morning with Your lovingkindness, That we may sing for joy and be glad all our
days. 15 Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us, And the
years we have seen evil. 16 Let Your work appear to Your servants And Your
majesty to their children. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And
confirm for us the work of our hands; Yes, confirm the work of our hands.”
“13 O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants! 14 Satisfy us each morning with your
unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives. 15 Give
us gladness in proportion to our former misery!
Replace the evil years with good. 16 Let us, your servants, see you work
again; let our children see your glory. 17 And may the Lord our God show us his
approval and make our efforts successful.
Yes, make our efforts successful!”
(NLT)
We began looking at this psalm by
saying that life was a school, and at times is a difficult school as we are at
times disciplined by the Lord in order to make us more like our Lord Jesus
Christ. Dr. Wiersbe writes that “in
spite of the ‘black border’ around this psalm, the emphasis is on life and not on death. The past and present experiences of life
prepare us for the future, and all of life prepares us for eternity.
Let’s contrast verses 7-12 with
verses 13-17 to see the differences in them.
What we will see is that the closing prayer emphasizes God’s compassion
and unfailing love; it will show His desire to give us joy and satisfaction,
even in the midst of life’s troubles, and His ability to make life count for
eternity. Dr. Wiersbe writes “When Jesus
Christ is your Savior and Lord, the future is your friend.”
7 We wither beneath your anger; we
are overwhelmed by your fury. 8 You spread out our sins before you- our secret
sins-and you see them all. 9 We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our
years with a groan. 10 Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best
years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away. 11
Who can comprehend the power of your anger?
Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.12 Teach us to realize
the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.” (NLT)
13 O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants! 14 Satisfy us
each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our
lives. 15 Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good. 16 Let us,
your servants, see you work again; let our children see your glory. 17 And may
the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!” (NLT)
There is a great deal of difference
from the psalmist in these two sections of Psalm 90. It is possible that verse
fourteen refers to the manna that the Lord gave Israel for forty years as they
wondered through the wilderness. This
gave physical satisfaction to them, but Jesus Christ is the bread of life who
can spiritually sustain us especially if we feast upon His Word in the mornings
so that we will be sustained throughout the day. Dr. Wiersbe points out that “The nourishment
of the Word enables us to be faithful pilgrims and successful learners.” Moses
is writing about the sorrows that the children of Israel had as they wondered
throughout the wilderness for forty years, but Moses also knew that the glories
of heaven will far outweigh the sorrows that we go through on this earth. “16
Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our
inner man is being renewed day by day. 17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for
us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, 18 while we look not
at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the
things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are
eternal. (2Cor. 4:16-18)
10 After you have suffered for a
little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in
Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. (1Peter
5:10) Peter is saying that although we
suffer here on earth we will be compensated in heaven, and this is what Moses
is saying. 24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused
to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25
choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to
enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of
Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.”
(Hebrews 11:24-26) Although the
work that Moses did seemed to not be rewarded at the time that he did them, he
knew that they would not go unnoticed by God.
Moses gave up a lot
in order to get a lot more, as the verses in Hebrews testify.
Dr.
Wiersbe concludes his commentary by saying “Life is brief, so Moses prayed,
‘Teach us.’ Life is difficult, and he
prayed, ‘Establish the work of our hands.’
God answered those prayers for Moses, and He will answer them for
us. The future is your friend when Jesus
is your Savior and Lord.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I want to
remember that the future is my friend especially when life does not seem too
good for me. Being filled with the
Spirit of God to do the work of God will bring me to greater blessings and
happiness as I live on this earth.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will work through me this day so that
whatever I do will bring honor and glory to my Lord.
5/22/2012
11:35:57 AM
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