Daily Devotion of Psalm 90

Daily Nugget:
Many people, especially those in the field of education, have created their own “science” about how the Earth came into existence and have made social standards for how they believe we should live. God allowed this prayer of Moses to reveal how all on Earth were created, our future, and how our lives can be different and more fulfilled.

Moses revealed:

• We have a place to live on this planet because of God (vs. 1). It was not the result of some “big bang” somewhere and sometime in outer space. We have a dwelling place because of God.
• God was here before the Earth was formed (vs. 2).
• Man was created from the dust of the Earth, and his body will return to itthe same way (vs. 3). Also: Eccl 12:7.
• Time means so much to man, as it is so limited and precious, but it does not to God who has eternity (vss. 4-6).
• God sees all we do, and when we violate what He desires of us, His anger can be poured out upon us (vss. 7-11).
• We do not have to live under God’s wrath. If we live the way He demands we can have a completely different life (vss. 12- 17). We do not have to mourn and wrestle against life. We can have a peaceful, meaningful life while following His will and way.
  “O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”  Psalm 90:14

The unbelieving and ungodly do not teach what God wants us to know. Their ever-changing theories and explanations may make sense to those that take God out of the equation, but they are not true. Who do you believe: man or God?

Today’s Thought: 
"The probability of life originating by accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary originating from an explosion in a print shop." — Edwin Conklin

Words to Understand:
Score: twenty years. Threescore is 60 years. Fourscore is forty years.
Turneth: turn back

Today’s Reading:
Psalm 90
1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. 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.