The Finish Line

We are coming down to the finish line. I never intended

to do a “superficial” meditation on this psalm, but it has

unfolded in my own time with God. I use the term, “superficial,”

because I have truly only scratched the surface but pray that

you, the reader, will read it yourself and receive additional insights.

“Let your work be shown to your servants,

and your glorious power to their children.”

“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,

and, establish the work of our hands upon us;

yes, establish the work of our hands.”

Ps 90:16, 17

How often I rush past His work with hardly a glance. My mind

tends to wander as a walk, drive, or water the garden. I miss the

majesty of the clouds at sunset, or how the light filters through 

the trees in the early morning. His glory is manifested all around

me, but I need Him to reveal it to me. 

Question: How important is it that our children and grandchildren

embrace the glorious power of their creator God?

I like the next verse and how the psalmist asks that God’s beauty,

or favor rest upon him. It appears that God is the giver, but not 

necessarily seen by the recipient.

Verse 16 mentions God’s work and verse 17 deals with man’s work,

or in personal terms, my work. I am made in God’s image and deep

in my heart I want my work to be eternal not just temporal in scope.

God needs to be the One who gives my work meaning and the fact 

that Moses repeats it twice indicates how important this is to him also.