THURSDAY, 7TH DECEMBER, 2023.
Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General
Overseer
Topic: A PRAYER OF MOSES THE MAN OF GOD
EXPOSITION
OF PSALM 90 – Part 1
MEMORIZE: “Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in
all generations. 2 Before the mountains
were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” Psalm 90:1-2.
SCRIPTURE
READING:
“Lord,
thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or
ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest,
Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as
yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood;
they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In
the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and
withereth.
7 ¶ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by
thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our
secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away
in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even
according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 ¶ So teach us to number our days, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O
satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the
years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and
thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be
upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our
hands establish thou it.”
EXPOSITION:
The foregoing psalm is
supposed to have been penned as late as the captivity in Babylon; this, it is
plain, was penned as early as the deliverance out of Egypt, and yet they are
put close together in this collection of divine songs. This psalm was penned by
Moses (as appears by the title), the most ancient penman of sacred writ. We
have upon record a praising song of his (Exodus 15, which is alluded to Re
15:3), and an instructing song of his, Deut. 32. But this is of a different
nature from both, for it is called a prayer. It is supposed that this psalm was
penned upon occasion of the sentence passed upon Israel in the wilderness for
their unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion, that their carcases should fall in
the wilderness, that they should be wasted away by a series of miseries for
thirty eight years together, and that none of them that were then of age should
enter Canaan. This was calculated for their wanderings in the wilderness, as
that other song of Moses (De 31:19,21) was for their settlement in Canaan. We
have the story to which this psalm seems to refer, Numbers 14. Probably Moses
penned this prayer to be daily used, either by the people in their tents, or,
at least, by the priests in the tabernacle service, during their tedious
fatigue in the wilderness. In it,
I. Moses comforts himself and
his people with the eternity of God and their interest in him, Ps 90:1-2.
II. He humbles himself and his
people with the consideration of the frailty of man, Ps 90:3-6.
III. He submits himself and
his people to the righteous sentence of God passed upon them, Ps 90:7-11.
IV. He commits himself and his
people to God by prayer for divine mercy and grace, and the return of God's
favour, Ps 90:12-17.
Though it seems to have been
penned upon this particular occasion, yet it is very applicable to the frailty
of human life in general, and, in singing it, we may easily apply it to the
years of our passage through the wilderness of this world, and it furnishes us
with meditations and prayers very suitable to the solemnity of a funeral.
PRAYER
POINT: Lord, restore
us back unto yourself and bless us with long life and prosperity in Jesus name.
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