MAY 3, 2025 Psalm 90:3-4 You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. Before the flood of Noah, men lived to several hundred years old. Noah himself lived to be 950 years old; Adam […]
MAY 4, 2025 Psalm 90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your countenance. How many conversations and interactions with people, strangers and loved ones alike, have we forgotten? I’m sure the count is innumerable — at least from our vantage point. Yes, key events in our life — things that […]
APRIL 30, 2025 Psalm 89:44-45 You have made his glory cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth You have shortened; You have covered him with shame. Selah In the previous devotion, we addressed how the House of David was likened to the sun and moon in terms of brightness but […]
MAY 5, 2025 Psalm 90:10 The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. All of our days have been determined — at least that is what I […]
MAY 2, 2025 Psalm 90:3-4 You turn man to destruction, and say, “Return, O children of men.” For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. If we were to summarize the essence of this psalm it would be the contrast between God’s […]
MAY 1, 2025 Psalm 90:1-2 Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. This psalm begins the fourth book of the psalms and is the first of several attributed to Moses. It seems fitting, […]
APRIL 29, 2025 Psalm 89:36-37 His seed shall endure forever, and His throne as the sun before Me. It shall be established forever like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky. As has been mentioned multiple times in this psalm, God ordained that the Throne of David would endure through the generations. But has also […]
APRIL 28, 2025 Psalm 89:34-35 My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips, once I have sworn by My holiness. God keeps His Word — of this there is no doubt. He is faithful to keep covenant with His people and fulfill His promises to us. As it […]
APRIL 24, 2025 Psalm 89:15-16 Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long. Every month, at the new moon, these verses are recited as an acknowledgement that we are to sound the shofar. In fact, the joyful sound mentioned in […]
APRIL 26, 2025 Psalm 89:19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one and said: “I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.” It is commonly accepted in Jewish circles that this verse is written with David in mind, alluding to the events that led up to the […]
