Simply Trust the Lord
S - Psalm 90
A prayer of Moses the man of God.
1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. 2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. 3 You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.(A) 5 Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: 6 In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. 7 We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan. 10 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. 11 If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due. 12 Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants. 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. 16 May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. 17 May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.
O - This psalm is a prayer of Moses. Most likely related to the time that his own brother and sister Miram and Aaron, started questioning why Moses was above them. God did not hesitate to correct them , bringing them into the tent, rebuking them, and then punishing Miriam with Leprosy. Moses then out of deep empathy and love came back to the Lord and prayed for forgiveness of their sin and ask for the Lords’s loving kindness to be showered over them. The observation is to recognize that Moses anointing and being set apart from everyone else out should have been obvious to all the Israelites but even more so to Aaron and Miriam, yet they too sinned despite everything God had shown them, through Moses.
A - The application for me is to recognize I am more like Miriam and Aaron than I am Moses. I have a tendency to forget that God is in control, has anointed leaders who are over me, and has given me a clear and distinct role to play in all that He has planned. I need not allow circumstances around me to create doubt and insecurity in my head that cause me to doubt God’s plan and by whom He desires to enact which part of His plan. I must simply trust.
P - Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for today’s lesson , may it be sealed to my heart. Lord I pray for forgiveness over situations where I have lost faith in your plan and those you have anointed over me. I pray you would help me be a good steward of the gifts and resources you have given me. I pray all this in Jesus name, Amen.
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