Outlive: A Walk With Moses (Psalm 90)نموونە

As we consider our lives and remaining days, it is important to have a correct view of God. In Psalm 90, Moses introduces the matter of “God as He is.”

Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.

Before the mountains were born

Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,

Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. (Psalm 90:1–2)

God is all-generational (v. 1). My generation saw the leap from gramophones to digital streaming, from handwritten letters to What’s App, and from riding everywhere on bikes to lining up for space trips to Mars. Who knows what wonders will come next!

Regardless of our generational location, the Lord is our dwelling place. He is our home, not merely where we are housed. Everything positive about home—refuge, rest, reference—is true about the Lord, our dwelling place in all generations.

God is eternal, an essential attribute of deity (v. 2). If God’s essence and attributes can’t be separated—they can’t—every attribute of God must be eternal. He is the self-existent one, above time. Time is not absolute to him, as it is with us.

Moses illustrates the “everlastingness” of God in relation to creation: He created time along with the rest of reality. Moses appeals to the mountains to reflect the immensity and infinity of God. He existed as God even before the birth of the earth.

God is our dwelling place, and He is infinite. It is no wonder the psalmist declares His ultimate identity unequivocally—You are God. Full stop.

I become more and more convinced that the Bible’s theme is that very assertion—“You are God.” It establishes the identity of God in the minds and hearts of creation. The identity of God is revealed in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose incarnation concretized it in human time and space.

Understand that God doesn’t need to interview for the job. He always has been. He always will be. God is God. Redundant, but a needed reminder. And He is the eternal dwelling place of sinful humans who place their trust in Him.