Outlive: A Walk With Moses (Psalm 90)Sample

“What do you see?” asked the optician. His patient replied, “I see empty restaurants, stadiums, and airports,” which prompted a wry return: “You have perfect 2020 vision!”

Remember 2020? Who could forget? “Twenty-twenty” often refers to hindsight, but even hindsight is never perfect. And if our hindsight is imperfect, our foresight is impossible.

Though only God has true foresight, with forethought, we can make good use of our remaining days. Regardless of how we exit this life, the statistical exit average never changes. My death is certain. Your death is certain. Though we can’t know the when, where, or how of our upcoming deaths, we can give forethought to the rest of our lives. Only with God’s help, can we outlive that certain death.

During the early days of COVID, Psalm 90 came to mean a lot to me. God used it in that season of potential sickness and death.

Psalm 90:17:

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;

And confirm for us the work of our hands;

Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

Psalm 90 is a life and death psalm, a time and eternity psalm, and best of all, it is a God and man psalm. It is the oldest datable psalm, for the title reads, “A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.” Its theme: The favor of the Lord our God is necessary for life to last past death.