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November 10 - Psalm 90 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. Sean here.
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  Friday's the day. Well done.
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  The end of the week is upon us once again.
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  Hooray Hooray Hooray for me and for you and for all of those who
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  like Friday's and if you have got exams coming up next week,
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  then well, Friday man, seems like such a happy thing but well
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  done to you and all the best with all the pressure of your
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  challenges that are coming up next week.
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  And for the rest of us, we will tiptoe quietly and do our best
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  to serve the needs of those who have got really, really
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  challenging days ahead. And we friends are covering some
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  territory. It must be exactly 90 weeks ago
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  that you and I started reading through Psalms every Friday, and
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  here we are reaching Psalm 90. This is the beginning of the 4th
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  Book of the Psalms. We have finished the first
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  three, and now we continue with this one.
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  A prayer for Moses or a prayer of Moses, the man of God.
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  How fantastic. So friends, on this Friday, let
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  us put down whatever is bouncing around the side of us, and for
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  the next 17 verses, let U.S. Open our hearts and our minds.
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  To the God of the universe who speaks to us in the words of
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  Psalm 90 Lord, through all the generations you have been our
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  home. Before the mountains were born,
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  before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from
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  beginning to end, you are God. You turn people back to dust,
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  saying return to dust, you mortals.
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  For you, 1000 years are as a passing day, as brief as a few
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  night hours. You sweep people away like
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  dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs
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  up in the morning. In the morning it blooms and
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  flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered.
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  We wither beneath your anger. We are overwhelmed by your fury.
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  You spread out our sins before you, our secret sins, and you
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  see them all. We live our lives beneath your
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  wrath, ending our years with a groan. 70 years are given to us,
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  Some even lived to 80. But even the best years are
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  filled with pain and trouble. Soon they disappear and we fly
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  away. Who can comprehend the power of
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  your anger? Your wrath is as awesome as the
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  fear you deserve. Teach us to realize the brevity
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  of life so that we may grow in wisdom.
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  Oh Lord, come back to us. How long will you delay?
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  Take pity on your servants. Satisfy us each morning with
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  your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our
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  lives. Give us gladness in proportion
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  to our former misery. Replace the evil years with
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  good. Let us, your servants, see you
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  work again. Let our children see your glory.
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  And may the Lord our God show us His approval.
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  And make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts
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  successful, Father. You bring it all back into
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  perspective. Our lives, like withering grass,
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  come and go, and what feels so impossibly important and full
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  and long is but a few hours to you.
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  A few nighttime hours, the Psalmist says.
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  Draw us to your eternal truth, our eternal identity, so that
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  it's not this passing exhale of our life, but it's the eternity
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  beyond that. Lived as your children in your
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  presence that may take precedence.
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  Shape our perspective to mirror that eternal truth.
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  You are our God forever and we your children.
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  We love you, our Father and we thank you for Your love and Your
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  forgiveness of us in Jesus name. Amen.