SPIRIRUAL DIARY FOR
5/21/2012 8:58:39 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Use your time Wisely
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Psalm
90:3-12
Message
of the verses: In yesterday’s SD we
began to look at Psalm 90 by looking at the first two verses and also looking
at several introductions to the Psalm.
In Dr. Wiersbe’s introduction he wrote the following at the end of his
introduction: “Life was not easy for Moses, but he triumphed, and in this psalm
he shared his insights so that we, too, might have strength for the journey and
end well.”
We are Learners and Life Is Our
School (vv. 3-12): “3 You turn man back into dust
And say, "Return, O children of men." 4 For a thousand years in Your
sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night. 5 You
have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are
like grass which sprouts anew. 6 In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew;
Toward evening it fades and withers away.
7 For we have been consumed by Your anger And by Your wrath we have been
dismayed. 8 You have placed our iniquities before You, Our secret sins in the
light of Your presence. 9 For all our days have declined in Your fury; We have
finished our years like a sigh. 10 As for the days of our life, they contain
seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but
labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone and we fly away. 11 Who understands the power of
Your anger And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You? 12 So
teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.”
According to Acts 7:22 we learn
this about Moses, “Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and
he was a man of power in words and deeds.’”
Moses was educated in the best place on earth at that time, and yet he
learned much more when he began to walk with the Lord that all he had learned
from his education in Egypt. Dr. Wiersbe
points out: “In the school of life (v.
12), we need to learn two important lessons:
life is brief and
passes swiftly (vv. 4-6), so make the most of it; and life is difficult and at times seems futile
(vv. 7-11), but this is
the only way to mature. Were there
no sin in the world, there would be no suffering and death; but people made of
dust defy the God of the universe and try to repeal the inexorable law of sin
and death, ‘For dust you are, and to dust you shall return; (Gen. 1:19NKJV).” He goes on to write, “The school of life is
preparation for an eternity with God, and without Him, we cannot learn our
lessons, pass our tests, and make progress from kindergarten to graduate
school!”
We see in verse four something
similar that is written in 2 Peter 3:8 “But do not let this one fact escape
your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and
a thousand years like one day.” I have
heard many people take this verse and say that the Lord may not return for
thousands of years because a thousand years is like a day in the site of the
Lord. I disagree with their logic
completely, for what both Moses and Peter are saying is that God is outside of
time, for it was God who made time whenever he made the earth and placed the
earth in rotation around the sun making one year and the earth’s rotation makes
up one day. God made all of that but He
lives outside of time and to Him a day is like a thousand years.
I have heard that life is like a
roll of toilet paper, for when you get to the end of it, it goes a lot faster,
and that is true, for the older you get the faster life seems to pass, but God
is in eternity and is eternal and so life never ends for Him for He has been
around forever, something that is hard to understand.
Moses gives illustrations of how
fast life fades by using nature, how fast grass can disappear once it begins to
grow. (Vv. 4-6) Dr. Wiersbe writes “In the school of life,
those students learn the most who realize that the dismissal bell rings when
they least expect it!”
Verses 7-11 are Moses’ writings
about what happened at Kadesh Barnea which is found in Numbers chapters
thirteen and fourteen, and of course that is when Israel wanted to send out
spies to look at the Promised Land and ten of them came back with a bad report
and so God made Israel march around in the wilderness for forty years until all
those who were over twenty years old died in the wilderness. If there were two million people who came out
of Egypt there would have been 140 funerals a day for forty years. Joshua and Caleb were the only two people
from the older generation who went into the Promised Land, for they were the
two spies who believed that God could use Israel to defeat those who lived in
the Promised Land. What Moses was saying
is that if the children of Israel marched around the wilderness for forty hears
those who were twenty at the time of this great sin would be sixty years old
when they would need to conquers the Promised Land and a person is fortunate to
live 70 years and perhaps 80 years.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I suppose
that the timing of this Psalm is great for it was on this day ninety years ago
that my mother was born, and so today she celebrates he 90th
birthday. Ninety years is a long life,
but to God it is only a few seconds, and to us who are alive now it does not
seem that long. The important thing is
to learn the things that the Lord wants to teach us in our stay on earth so
that when eternity begins for us we will have some jewels in our crowns that we
can place at the feet of Jesus.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Use
my time wisely.
5/21/2012
10:56:26 AM
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