Outlive: A Walk With Moses (Psalm 90)Sample

As he nears the end of his Psalm 90 prayer, Moses asks for a fifth favor: intervention in light of our needs.

Let Your work appear to Your servants

And Your majesty to their children. (Psalm 90: 16)

Who has not prayed for a miracle from God? Who has not asked God to do something so incredible that He will get the glory?

God is not only good all the time, He is also working all the time—except God’s work is at most times invisible. He allows us to participate in the weaving of the underside of the circumstantial quilt of our lives.

Moses wishes to see the invisible, incredible other side of the quilt. For when it is shown to His servants, they will feel its majestic impact. Our superlatives will be at a loss. We will fully view the fabulous quilt in heaven, when among our first words will be these: “Of course, now we understand.” Until then the secrets belong to Him (Deuteronomy 29:29). But here, Moses asks for divine intervention as soon as it is right. Moses invites God’s invisible work to appear to His servants so that he and his family can revel in wonder and praise for God’s imagination and creativity—just slightly revealed now.

Lord, would you intervene on our behalf in light of our needs? Let your work appear in all its glorious majesty, and we will be thrilled and enthralled! Display your splendor, Lord.

Note that we are servants, albeit God’s servants, who labor through all of this life discovering God’s providential assignments for us. What a relief it must have been for His disciples to hear Jesus’s words: “No longer do I call you slaves … but I have called you friends” (John 15:15). Jesus had made everything He learned from the Father known to them. Friends first. Servants next.

They would be accompanied in their daily and lifelong assignments with divine instruction, compassion, satisfaction, jubilation, and intervention. We can ask God for the same favor.