OUR DAILY BREAD : THE LORD OF OUR YEARS

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June 3
Wednesday


THE LORD OF
OUR YEARS

READ:
Psalm 90
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Before the mountains
were brought forth, or
ever You had formed
the earth and the world,
even from everlasting
to everlasting, You are
God. __Psalm 90:2
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When the Concise Oxford English Dictionary announced in 2006 that the word time was the most-often used noun in the English language. It didn't seem surprising. We live in a world where people are obsessed with using days, saving minutes, and trying to find more hours in the day. Although each of us has all the time that there is, few of us think we have enough.

Perhaps that's why Psalm 90 is such a treasured passage. It shifts the focus from our time-bound lives to our eternal God. "Before the mountains wee brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God" (v.2).

A stanza in Matthew Bridges' well-known hymn "Crown Him With Many Crowns" begins: "Crown Him the Lord of years, the Potentate of time." A potentate is a sovereign, a monarch, an anointed majesty--one who does not seek appointment or run for election.

God created time. He rules and transcends it. When we feel frustrated by the calendar or captured by the clock, a quiet reading of Psalm 90 reminds us that our days and years are in the hands of our eternal God.

As we humbly bow before Him, we see time from a new perspective.
__David McCasland
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````````````````````Crown Him the Lord of years,`````````````````
``````````````````````The Potentate of time,````````````````````
```````````````````Creator of the rolling spheres,`````````````````
```````````````````Ineffably sublime. __Bridges``````````````````
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We must have a right view of eternity
to know the real value of time.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 90*****************

1 LORD, You have been
our dwelling place in all
generations. 2 Before the
mountains were brought
forth, or ever You had
formed the earth and
the world, even from
everlasting to everlasting,
You are God.

3 You turn man to
destruction, and say,
"Return, O children of
men." 6 For a thousand
years in Your sight are like
yesterday when it is past,
and like a watch in the
night....

7 For we have been
consumed by Your anger,
and by Your wrath we are
terrified. 8 You have set our
iniquities before you, our
secret sins in the light of
Your countenance. 9 For
all our days have passed
away in Your wrath; we
finish our years like a sigh.

10 The days of our lives are
seventy years; and if by
reason of strength they are
eight years, yet their boast
is only labor and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off, and
we fly away....

13 Return, O LORD! How
long? and have compassion
on Your servants. 14 Oh,
satisfy us early with Your
mercy, that we may rejoice
and be glad all our days!...

16 Let Your work appear to
Your servants, and Your
glory to their children.

17 And let the beauty of the
LORD our God be upon us,
and establish the work of
our hands for us; yes,
establish the work of our
hands.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Notice the twin calls found in Moses' great hymn. In verse 3, God
calls for the children of men to return and see His timeless grandeur.
In verse 13, however, Moses responds by calling to the timeless God
to return with compassion for a people locked into time and space.
__Bill Crowder