Psalm Chapter 90 - A Prayer of Moses the man of God

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Psalm 90: Teach Us to Number Our DaysThis is the oldest psalm in the book — Moses, of all people, holding the pen — and it has the long view. Before the mountains were brought forth, before the world was so much as drafted, thou art God. A thousand years pass through such a being like a watch in the night. Set against that backdrop, our small lives flash up briefly: grass in the morning, withered by evening. Threescore and ten, fourscore at the outside, and even those years are mostly labor. One might expect Moses, after such an opening, to ask for more time. Instead he asks for something stranger and far more useful: "Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Not lengthen them — number them. Give us, that is, the kind of attention that turns a brief life from a leak into a libation. And then, almost shyly, the most heartbreaking petition in the Psalter: "Establish thou the work of our hands upon us." Yes, we are grass. But let the grass have meant something.00:00 From Everlasting to Everlasting01:00 As Grass That Withereth02:00 Establish the Work of Our Hands

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