055 - Psalm 90

PSALM 90: DON'T WEAR, TRYING TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE. KEEP FOCUSED ON ETERNAL ONE LIFE AND TAKE THE FIGHT TO SEE ALL BEAUTY THAT IS IN CHRIST. 

 

What does this psalm mean? What the Eternal One wanted to communicate to us through Moses?

The verse that most calls me attention is: 

 

·        “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." (Psalm 90.12).

 

Are we knowing interpret our life in this world to the point of knowing count our days for individuals to hear, or we are not yet found the real meaning of our life? Who belongs to Christ must be ready to be a response to this crooked and perverse generation:

 

·       "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising." (Isaiah 60.1-3).

·       "For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 2.7).

·        "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" (1 Peter 3.15).

 

We are simply passing through life or are we making history, marking in a positive manner each one with whom we have contact?

We are not here just to "see the band pass" or to suffer the consequences of the sins of others. We are here to reveal something unique about the Eternal One.

 

·       "For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told." (Psalm 90.9).

 

Being so brief, life is worth living angry?

The majority is this way: by receiving only the indignation of the Eternal One for living according to the sins of others, contrary to Leviticus 19.17:

 

·       "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him."

 

Although we should not remain silent in seeing the neighbor being fed with false testimonials (Exo 20.16) or be complicit in the works of darkness that they practice (Eph 5.11), nor by this we want to convince them of something: this is the task of the Spirit of the Eternal One (John 16.8).

Why do you think that the Eternal One puts our iniquities and sins hidden from before your face?

 

·       "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance." (Psalm 90.8).

 

So, when we pray to Him, we can see at what there is in us:

 

·       "And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." (1John 3.19-22).

 

It is clear that, many times, as we do not want to face the truth, we blame the Eternal One when problems arise and because He don’t solve them for us immediately.

However, it is us who put the sin before us and of the individuals. The Eternal One is of purer eyes that takes no pleasure in seeing evil, nor in contemplating the oppression (Habakkuk 1.13). It is us who, unfortunately, like to be seeing and hearing the misfortunes of the neighbor (hence the success of the tv news).

If we stop to be nourishing our heart with the wickedness which may be in the hearts of others and concentrate on what the grace of Jesus can do in the midst of this (Rom 5.20), we would have good enough eyes (Titus 1.15; Matt 6.22,23; Luke 11.33-36) to be light in the midst of darkness (Isaiah 60.1; Matt 5.14-16).

Think: why waste time hating or trying to make evil against individuals? What is our life here?

 

·       "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." (Psalm 90.4).

 

Even if we live a thousand years, before the Eternal One, this is how yesterday. 

 

·       "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth." (Psalm 90.5,6).

 

After all, what is a thousand years compared with eternity?

 

·       "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." (Psalm 90.1,2).

 

We bite and devour one another (Gal 5.15) to enjoy the pleasures of sin and, in the end, do not take into another world nothing, neither even our body. So, what would profit have to win the world to enjoy intensely for a thousand years and then be condemned to spend eternity separated from peace, happiness and love?

Instead of we insist on our will, it is more convenient we harbor ourselves in Jesus. Just because He is a refuge which never ages or ends. Therefore, we take refuge in Jesus in the certainty that He will always be available to give us exactly what we need.

If in the river of life has what we need, then why do we want to leave Him to achieve something? Why do we want something which, although in the presence of Christ, has nothing to do with Him? What can be good outside of Christ or who has nothing to do with Him?

Consider also that our life is much less significant than a thousand years:

 

·       "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." (Psalm 90.10).

·       “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not." (Job 14.1,2).

·       "The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever." (Isaiah 40.6-8).

·       "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1.23-25).

 

Therefore, there is no time to "trial and error" (even more considering that each error 'traumatises the heart both our and the individuals around us).

Then comes the question: is it worth it to be vessel from the wrath of the Eternal One? Is it worth it to be consumed by His wrath?

 

·       "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." (Psalm 91.1);

·       "What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" (Romans 9.22-24).

 

By chance we want to be conducted by the Eternal One amid the temptations of our flesh (contrary to the prayer of Jesus - Matthew 6.13)?

Often we blame Jesus by harden our hearts. However, Jesus never force anybody to anything (let alone to sin against Him). What He does is to use all reprobate mind (Rom 1.28) of who refuses to follow Him in order to treat the hearts of His children and, especially, to show how His grace is much more abundant than any evil that someone can bring against us (Rom 5.20).

Finally, why having to suffer first to, just then, seek Jesus, being that we can do this now? Even because, prolonged contact with the sin let someone so hardened that, finally, nor all the abundance of River of Life will be able to penetrate all the aridity of the impermeable soil on which the heart transformed.

And the worst part is that often we blame the Eternal One by the misfortunes that succeed us:

 

·       "Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men." (Psalm 90.3).

 

Although the Eternal One allows certain things in our lives in order to depart from evil way, his goal is not in reducing the destruction. It is the wickedness of man who ends up doing harm to the individual oneself:

 

·       "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh." (Prov 11.17).

 

The Eternal One only delivers those who let themselves be taken by greed (Prov 1.19) to their own reprobate mind (Romans 1.28).

Many times we cry out:

 

·       " Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants." (Psalm 90.13).

 

But it isn’t Jesus who moves away. See the case of Adam: when he sinned, the Eternal One was to him; he is that fled and hid (Gen 3.8).

Many times, we think that the Eternal One is severe:

 

·       "Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath." (Psalm 90.11)

 

However, He does not afflict, nor grieve the children of men willingly (Micah 7.18). And we are not consumed, because His mercy is renewed each day (Lam 3.21,22) and He does not change (Malachi 3.6). The human being is that wishes to see all His wrath being poured out (either directly or through the wrath of others, such as, for example, the authorities) on all those that they consider worthy of suffering.

Worth it wearing oneself both, be planning evil instead of sleeping peacefully (Micah 2.1)? It is worth using the time that should serve us rest for thinking in more effective ways to take advantage of neighbor? Will we only rest when there is no more strength in us, or when everything that we could think or do against the neighbor has already been completed?

Instead we are brooding over the evil that was done against us, let us know, through prayer and meditating on the Sacred Scripture, which the covenant of Jesus with us (Psalm 25.14). From the moment that we know who we are and what our mission in this world, we will see that everything that happens to us is, in fact, a sign that aims at pointing out to us the path to be followed.

On this basis, delivered all thy ways to Jesus, trust in Him and He will provide you with everything you need for the next day while you sleep (Psalms 37.5-6; 127.1,2). Rest in the Lord Jesus, wait on Him (Psalm 37.7), without ever forgetting to seek His kingdom and righteousness (Matt 6.33). He already knows in advance everything you need and promised to provide this with His glory acting on you (Eph 3.20,21; Phil 4.19).

 

·       "O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days." (Psalm 90.14).

 

Instead of getting with our eyes fixed on the losses, let us concentrate on the riches that Jesus has for us. Instead of wearing and wearying us trying to gather riches, let us find our contentment in the presence of Jesus and wherein He has for us:

 

·       "Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven." (Prov 23.4,5).

 

Rest in the Lord Jesus and hold on Him and, truly, thou shalt be fed (Psalm 37.3):

 

·       "Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil." (Psalm 90.15).

 

Instead of getting angry with the evil that was done, with the bad things that are happening to us, let’s seek our joy solely in the company of Jesus (in hearing your voice - John 3.29) so that we can have our desires satisfied by His presence in us (Psalm 37.4).

Even more: let us always find the supernatural joy of the Eternal One in the midst of the days in which we are afflicted. The true grace of the Eternal One is in Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks (1Thes 5.16-18).

Above all, we must be careful to ensure that, as Job and his servants, we don’t confuse the action of Ha-Satan with the one of the Eternal One (Job 1.16). Often it isn’t the Eternal One who is grieving us: we're reaping what we sow.

Even so, the Eternal One wants to show His strength and give us victory over ourselves and about the errors we commit:

 

·       "Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children." (Psalm 90.16).

 

What we need is to have good eyes (Matt 6.22,23; Luke 11.33-36) to know see the blessing of Eternal One that is right in front of us. 

Many times we are willing that the work of the Eternal One appears, being that, in truth, it was already made and is very close to us (meditate on Matthew 13.44-46, where the richness was found exactly where it was he who was seeking).

 

·       "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it." (Psalms 90.17).

 

However, we need to be aware that the main thing is for us it we see the beauty of the Eternal One, because the beauty of His Holiness is the place where we ought to worship (Psalm 29.2; 96.9). In other words,  we only ought to wish that the work of our own hands is confirmed upon us (i.e., as something to direct our lives). But this only will happen if we are in the place where everything that the Eternal One is manifest itself continuously.

I repeat: the work of our hands only deserve to be confirmed if they are, in fact, an expression of the work of the Eternal One. Otherwise, our works are filthy rags and deserve, for this reason, be annihilated.

On this basis, I want you to spend your life where you can see all the beauty of Christ that it is possible to be seen by a human being.