MY LIFE IS SO TEMPORARY…

READ PSALM 90

WHY WOULD I ALLOW THE CARES OF THIS WORLD  TO OVERWHELM ME?

Psalm 90:1-2                                                       

Lord, you have been our dwelling place

in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth,

or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

God is eternal; before anything was formed, God was present. This is a hard concept for finite man to understand.

Psalm 90:3-4

You return man to dust

and say, “Return, O children of man!”

For a thousand years in your sight

are but as yesterday when it is past,

or as a watch in the night.

Man is frail, God gives him life, and soon he returns to dust.

Religion has always done two things: it has made God more similar to man and has made man more similar to God. In reality, however, there is incredible distance between the two.

When man foolishly creates god in his mind, he makes him similar to what he humanly knows and understands.

Romans 1:22-23

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

How foolish we become, when we forget how holy and wise God is. Man is not capable of understanding God, apart from the Scriptures. When we allow our imaginations to direct our thoughts, we can only rest assured that we will be led in the wrong direction.

Isaiah 55:8-9

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

It is God who sets the standards for man.

Psalm 90:7-8

For we are brought to an end by your anger;

by your wrath we are dismayed.

You have set our iniquities before you,

our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Nothing is hidden from God. Every minute of our life is lived in the sight of the God of heaven.

Psalm 90:9-11

For all our days pass away under your wrath;

we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

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.

Who considers the power of your anger,

and your wrath according to the fear of you?

Our life is short; our days are in the hands of our God. We live only a few years, so why would we ever live enveloped by the cares of this world, instead of by the blessing of the eternal?

How much of our time is driven by that which will not last?

How many of our fears are based on that which we cannot control?

How many of our thoughts are filled with things that are not true?

How much of our bitterness is based on those things which are momentary?

How do these truths effect my life?

• I have the Bible, and so can know God.
• God sent His Son to die for those who will believe in Him.
• Christ arose, victorious over death, on the third day and is now seated at the right hand of God.
• My life is in His hands.
• I am frail, but God holds my future.
• I can know this is sure, if I am child of God.

This list should be very long! Stop and take the time to reflect on God, and then live according to the wonderful truths of the Scriptures.