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Psalm 90:1-17
1 Lord, you have been our home since the beginning. 2 Before the mountains were born and before you created the earth and the world, you are God. You have always been, and you will always be.
3 You turn people back into dust. You say, "Go back into dust, human beings."
4 To you, a thousand years is like the passing of a day, or like a few hours in the night.
5 While people sleep, you take their lives. They are like grass that grows up in the morning. 6 In the morning they are fresh and new, but by evening they dry up and die.
7 We are destroyed by your anger; we are terrified by your hot anger.
8 You have put the evil we have done right in front of you; you clearly see our secret sins.
9 All our days pass while you are angry. Our years end with a moan. 10 Our lifetime is seventy years or, if we are strong, eighty years But the years are full of hard work and pain. They pass quickly, and then we are gone.
11 Who knows the full power of your anger? Your anger is as great as our fear of you should be.
12 Teach us how short our lives really are so that we may be wise.
13 Lord, how long before you return and show kindness to your servants?
14 Fill us with your love every morning. Then we will sing and rejoice all our lives. 15 We have seen years of trouble. Now give us as much joy as you gave us sorrow.
16 Show your servants the wonderful things you do;
show your greatness to their children.
17 Lord our God, treat us well.
Give us success in what we do;
yes, give us success in what we do.

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~ Lena’s Journalin’
God has been our “home” from before the beginning. That means in Him we lived, moved, and had any of our being. We came from Him, even if it meant we were in His heart. He desired, He spoke, He created us.
We have children and we desired children before they were born, we imagined them before they were born, before we ever saw them we made plans for them, and thought of their futures and our hopes for their lives here.
God has plans, that’s why He imagined us, that’s why He purposed, and He made room for, prepared the world for and created us.
That plan is the plan of fulfillment. Any other plan is an imposition.
Lets look at vs 7 in the KJV- For we are consumed (8804) by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled (8738).
When this section speaks of consummation, it speaks of our end, which was determined before we began. It is the goal of our life, the purpose for our existence. The word anger speaks of making the necessary change by the giving of account – the root word, face or count-enance (accountability in the face of the one with whom we give the account) Wrath speaks of what was conceived, the passion of the conception of the purpose (yet unfulfilled). Trouble is defined, to make haste (of what was put off).
So, there is a determination beforehand, a certain destiny for humans to fulfill. If one does not know this, life will have been lived vainly, for breath and that’s all. Life was meant to be lived for the fulfillment of the purposes of God, God breathed life, lived out by human beings on earth.
The Lord is looking for His purposes to be fulfilled in and through us, His people.
We must find this, know this, and live this. This is why we are here. We are eternal beings, who’ve been sent to earth with a Co-mission by God, the Master of the whole Universe. We have only a few years to fulfill the Co-Mission, and we’ve been given all we need to engage, wage war, and be victorious in this life and that of the eternal life ahead of us.
We are not here to enjoy our lives lived for ourselves, that is a waste of our years.
Teach us Lord to make the most of all of our days here, Co-Missioned by Your Spirit, the fulfillers of Your Divine purposes, which You saw before we ever came into sight, in this visible natural world. Teach us, Lord to see into the eternal realm that has already begun to be formed for us before we were ever born.
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Daily Meditation/Recital/Question
Ask myself daily: “What Page Am I On?”