Outlive: A Walk With Moses (Psalm 90)Sample

The second request Moses makes before the Lord is for compassion in view of our transgressions.

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?

And be sorry for Your servants. (Psalm 90:13)

Who has not felt distant from God’s compassion? We wonder if God has departed from us. Verse 13 asks God to feel sorry and return to His servants.

God’s servants are constantly reminded—all around us and across the world—about the terrible consequences of sin. It can sometimes feel like God has abandoned us to our trickeries and absconded from us in His just anger.

However, God did return to His servants in answer to Moses’s prayer time and again throughout the history of Israel. The cross became the greatest demonstration of God’s compassionate favor, when God poured out His wrath on His servant, our Lord Jesus, instead of on us. On that basis, we appeal for God’s merciful favor to return to us right away, even when we feel forsaken by Him (Hebrews 4:16).