09/29/2022 -Day 214 – Psalm 90 – 92 // Praying the Psalms…
“I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’ (Psalm 91:3)
“He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.” (Psalm 91:15)
09/30/2022 p.s.: I can’t believe that for the first few times I read through the Bible around three decades ago, I rarely looked at bible footnotes or commentary. So I am sharing some verse commentary that I didn’t cover in our last cycle of 12/17/2020. I’ll reference the verse , followed by the comment in my Evidence Study Bible:
Psalm 90: “The superscription attributes this song to Moses, and the contents of it certainly do fit the wilderness experience. The idea that God swept the people away in His anger is a strong way of saying that they died in the wilderness because of their unbelief (95:11; Hebrews 4: 1-5).”
“90:13: To number our days is to measure the time left in life and make every day count. It is based on the recognition that life is short and God’s anger swift. Thus, the goal of such numbering is a heart of wisdom. Conscious of life’s brevity, we learn to make choices through which God can establish the work of our hands (v. 17), producing something valuable to those that follow us (v. 16)) and honoring to God.”
“91:16: The promise of long life to the believer must not be taken for an automatic guarantee of longevity in this physical world. Wisdom literature acknowledges that, even among the righteous, life may be cut short. Still, God’s purpose is that the righteous live still their life has been ‘satisfied’ in His sight. Ultimately He will fulfill His promise both in this life and in the life to come (1 Timothy 4: 8-9).”
Soli Deo Gloria!