Today's Scripture
Planting God’s Love – Psalm 90: 12-17
12 So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart.
13 Turn, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us,
and as many years as we have seen evil.
16 Let your work be manifest to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.
17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and prosper for us the work of our hands—
O prosper the work of our hands!
RJ's Devotion
What the passage says
V. 12-13 This is a Psalm written by Moses. His tone of the message is to realize how finite we are as humans. The more we realize our limitations, the wiser we are. In other words, he is asking God how to live wisely.
V. 14-15 Starting the day with God will fill us with joy that lasts throughout the day. A joy that can overcome all the difficulties the people endured, in the wilderness.
V. 16-17 We see the hope Moses have in God. In the wilderness, they do not have a hope to prosper. However, Moses asks for the blessings of prosperity, while he had nothing.
What does the passage say to me/us?
I as reflect on the Psalm, I reflected on the word ‘Satisfy.’
Moses and the people were in the wilderness for 40 years. Even though we don’t know if this Psalm was written at the beginning of the 40 years, or toward the end, it was hard for me to think that they can be satisfied. I like to camp out. I remember the times I had field training and camped on the sand for two weeks. Being satisfied was a difficult task. It was only when I came back home, my heart was full.
But Moses is asking to be satisfied. Not by fulfilling the material needs, but through the presence of God. And he says that will sustian them. Until they reach the kingdom, and rest in the fulfillment of our Lord.
As I reflected on the word, I asked, ‘Am I really desperate for God in the way Moses is?’ By anychance, am I ‘satisfied’ with all I think I have.
How can I move toward only being satisfied by the steadfast love of our Lord? The Psalm today will be my prayer, as I wait for that desire to awake in me.
“Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
Prayer
Lord, we want more of you in our lives. Help us to satisfy only in your steadfast love.
In your name, we pray. AMEN
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