Psalms 90 - Two Different Time Frames

4 Indeed, in your sight a thousand years are like a single day,
like yesterday—already past—
like an hour in the night.
5 You sweep mortals away.
They are a dream.
They sprout again in the morning like cut grass.
6 In the morning they blossom and sprout.
In the evening they wither and dry up.
Psalms 90:4-6 (GW)

8 You have set our sins in front of you.
You have put our secret sins in the light of your presence.
9 Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury.
We live out our years like one {long} sigh.
10 Each of us lives for 70 years—
or even 80 if we are in good health.
But the best of them {bring} trouble and misery.
Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:8-10 (GW)

17 Let the kindness of the Lord our God be with us.
Make us successful in everything we do.
Yes, make us successful in everything we do.
Psalms 90:17 (GW)

Reflection of B:

God and us have two different time frames. This knowledge helps us understand why sometimes we think God is too slow in action. Yet His time is not our time. In His time He will made all things beautiful. We must be patient to wait and see things He promised happen.

Human lives are short, 70 or 80 years, but science have prolonged our sufferings by prolonging our lives using unnatural means. Verse 10 says that even "the best of them {bring} trouble and misery". That means being alive and even healthy in itself cannot make us happy. We need God's kindness to be with us to make us "successful in everything we do" (v17).


Dear Lord,
Thank You for reminding me that Your time is not the same as mine and I have to be patient to wait for Your time to make things happen. I pray that Your kindness will be with me and make me successful in everything I do for Your name's sake.
In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.