Today's TRC DB Psalm 90 & John 3:17 w/ Lena's Journalin'

Scripture selections are taken from the Rock Church Daily Bread Reading schedule for each month. “Lena’s Journalin’” are Lena’s comments on the specific passages from her Daily Journal.

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Psalm 90:1-17
A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1 Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!
2 Before the mountains were created, before you made the earth and the world, you are God, without beginning or end.
3 You turn people back to dust, saying, "Return to dust!"
4 For you, a thousand years are as yesterday! They are like a few hours!
5 You sweep people away like dreams that disappear or like grass that springs up in the morning.
6 In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.
7 We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.
8 You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins—and you see them all.
9 We live our lives beneath your wrath. We end our lives with a groan.
10 Seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. But even the best of these years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we are gone.
11 Who can comprehend the power of your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the fear you deserve.
12 Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom.
13 O LORD, come back to us! How long will you delay? Take pity on your servants!
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives.
15 Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good.
16 Let us see your miracles again; let our children see your glory at work.
17 And may the Lord our God show us his approval and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful!

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~Lena’s Journalin’~
I see this Psalmist arising to a height with a very clear view, not an earthly view, but a heavenly view. I see a man being given a glimpse of eternity and writing it down.
Ever feel overwhelmed with the here and now, and completely involved in the scuffle, finding yourself thinking that this is all there is and just wanting to escape? Ever feel as though a day is so very long and you wish it would end?
That is how we see and feel if all we see is where we may be right now. It causes us to think our years are too long and we just wait to die. Forgive me, but this is the way of the self centered world. Our world does not revolve around us as humans, it revolves around God’s plan and we humans get to be a part of it.
You may ask how is this, that I’m involved in, God’s plan? Not every activity of earth is a part of God’s plan. Humans need to get that Divine view, see the greater picture and by Divine revelation join in to actively participate in that plan. Some humans have and can miss the “boat” altogether.
This Psalmist starts out saying how life seems a waste. It just seems like we live and we die and for what? Ever feel that way? It’s time for revelation.
This Psalmist saw a revelation. At the end of the Psalm he begins to cry out that we’d not only go through each day in drudgery awaiting its end, but we’d have enough of them left to get the job we’re here for accomplished!
He’s saying, Oh my, that we would live each of our days for God’s will and plan, That we’d know what that is and pursue it. Oh that’d we’d see what we came to earth for and do it. Oh that we’d have enough time to get it done, the portion that has been given to each of us, which is to lead many to Jesus and into the revealed purposes of God.
Rather than the days being too long and too many in our thoughts, those same days are hardly enough.
Now the world is not only about him, his needs, his pain, his sadness or misery, but his concern reaches out towards God’s will, then to whom may be the helpers in the executing of that will.
How many are around to join in? Oh, we’ve had children! May they get this same view! Oh Lord when we do anything towards the accomplishment of Your will and plan, let it work, because our time is here is so short.
See how our eyes always start out looking inward at self? This is for the purpose of the examination in searching for and finding our own great need for God , then to pursue our purpose, then as we grow and find our purposes are found in Christ Jesus our Lord, we then look outward, the more we grow the farther outward we look.
This Psalmist started looking at his own pain, the pain of a life lived in the earth alone in unrevealed purpose. As he grew into a relationship with God, he saw something greater than himself to live for. When a person wants to die, there’s no greater purpose that they’re living for. True martyrdom is one setting aside their own desires, goals, plans , ways and wills, to live for another’s, or to let another’s live on.

Daily Repetitive Verses:

John 3:17
You know these things – now do them! That is the path of blessing.