The Shortness of Life and the Goodness of God
Drew Hunter
Psalm 90
You can join me in opening up to Psalm 90.
And as you're turning there, I want to remind you about how we're praying as a church family.
-I know many of you are praying together as individuals, and families, and small groups.
-And we also had our first churchwide prayer meeting over Zoom this past Thursday night. Our next one will be on Tuesday morning. We'll be having two of these each week for whoever can join.
-And in our Midweek update we'll also be sharing another way we can pray for each member of our church family.
This is a unique time for us.
We've seen a number of different responses to the spread of COVID-19. Some are apathetic. Some are anxious. All of us are uncertain.
And God has given us Psalm 90 to help us in this. Psalm 90 acknowledges reality for what it is. It acknowledges the brevity of life. It acknowledges the reality of death. And yet it doesn't lead us to despair. This is a psalm of hope and joy and encouragement.
The tone is set in the opening verse; ''Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.'' God himself is our dwelling place, our truest home. This psalm is here to help us know how to experience this. It takes us on a journey.
Some people think that if you set your mind on God as your true dwelling place-if you set your mind on heaven-then you'll be of no earthly good. This psalm helps us see that the opposite is true. It's by setting our mind on God as our true home that we are motivated to give ourselves to the good of others.
And I want you to know that this has often been the case for Christians. Plagues are not new in the world. And one of the curiosities of history is how Christianity grew in the midst of them. Because people saw how Christians served and loved and showed their hope in Jesus.
I'll share a couple examples of that at the end. Because that's where this psalm leads us. Look how it ends: ''e ...
Drew Hunter
Psalm 90
You can join me in opening up to Psalm 90.
And as you're turning there, I want to remind you about how we're praying as a church family.
-I know many of you are praying together as individuals, and families, and small groups.
-And we also had our first churchwide prayer meeting over Zoom this past Thursday night. Our next one will be on Tuesday morning. We'll be having two of these each week for whoever can join.
-And in our Midweek update we'll also be sharing another way we can pray for each member of our church family.
This is a unique time for us.
We've seen a number of different responses to the spread of COVID-19. Some are apathetic. Some are anxious. All of us are uncertain.
And God has given us Psalm 90 to help us in this. Psalm 90 acknowledges reality for what it is. It acknowledges the brevity of life. It acknowledges the reality of death. And yet it doesn't lead us to despair. This is a psalm of hope and joy and encouragement.
The tone is set in the opening verse; ''Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.'' God himself is our dwelling place, our truest home. This psalm is here to help us know how to experience this. It takes us on a journey.
Some people think that if you set your mind on God as your true dwelling place-if you set your mind on heaven-then you'll be of no earthly good. This psalm helps us see that the opposite is true. It's by setting our mind on God as our true home that we are motivated to give ourselves to the good of others.
And I want you to know that this has often been the case for Christians. Plagues are not new in the world. And one of the curiosities of history is how Christianity grew in the midst of them. Because people saw how Christians served and loved and showed their hope in Jesus.
I'll share a couple examples of that at the end. Because that's where this psalm leads us. Look how it ends: ''e ...
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