Proclamation:
“All our days pass away under Your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan. Our
days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the
best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly
away…Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm
90:9-12 (NIV)
Explanation:
The words of this psalm were written under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God by Moses. This psalm is thought to be his prayer to The
Lord God after the people of Israel had sinned in the wilderness. Ten of the twelve spies that he sent to check
out the promised land of Canaan returned with an evil report, and the people
murmured and rebelled against Moses and that provoked The Lord God. Before the flood, men lived hundreds of
years, some to eight or nine hundred years.
After the flood men generally lived no more than 120 years. (Genesis
6:3) After the forty years of wandering
in the wilderness, men generally lived to seventy or eighty. The prayer of Moses was that God would allow
man to seriously consider the brief time to be spent on earth as compared to
eternity, and then hopefully develop an appreciation for following The Lord and
eternal salvation.
Application:
To the very young, seventy years seems
like a very long time, but to the rest of us that is not so. We can shorten or lengthen our life span by
our behavior. (Exodus 20:12) However,
regardless of the number of years we live on earth, when we die, our soul will
leave our body and spend eternity somewhere. (2 Corinthians 5:6-9) It is because of our soul that we are alive.
(Genesis 2:7) From the dust of the earth
were our bodies formed and when our soul leaves our bodies and returns to The
Lord, our physical body will return to dust. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) Our earthly life is brief but our souls are
eternal. In the end we will hear The
Lord God say “Well done good and faithful servant …” and spend eternity with
our Lord, (Matthew 25:21) or we will find that our name is not written in Book
of Life and spend eternity in the lake of fire, tormented day and night for
ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10-15)
Pray for a heart of wisdom, for fear of The Lord is the beginning of
wisdom. (Psalm 111:10 and Proverbs 9:10)
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