[Young Adult Reformed Fellowship] Already?!?

[John]

Its rather startling how soon the summer has come to an end. School has started and the traffic along 270 has regained its nightmarish quality. To be honest, it didn't really feel like a normal summer, perhaps because I didn't have a vacation or perhaps because it didn't get as beastly hot and humid as it usually does. Whatever the reason, it was much to quick. It reminds me of the verses in Psalm 90 that describe man's life and our sense of time in comparison to God's greatness and holiness. Its not a very pretty picture. For example, verses 4 through 6:

"For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:
In the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers."

Or even more delightful, verse 10:

"The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away."

In light of these verses, it is refreshing to read verses 12 through 17.

"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Return, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.
Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!"

Moses' prayer here is that in light our temporariness and imperfection we would go to God offering our limited days to his glory (which is the way of wisdom), seek his mercy on our lives, bask in his everlasting and steadfast love for daily renewal, and depend on him to fill our lives with gladness even in light of the evil around us. It is only this way that our lives have meaning and by God's grace, we can be a part of his glorious everlasting plan.

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Posted By John to Young Adult Reformed Fellowship at 9/02/2009 10:13:00 AM