We know we will die, but we either tend to not think about it or are too scared to think about it. Now of course, that really isn’t a news flash. You will be buried in the ground, and you body will return to the dust that God created the first man from. At some point, that 10 ounce muscle in your chest that beats about 100,000 times a day, and carries life-giving blood to all the different places of your body, will stop working. Let’s pray to ask God help us to know the truth in this Psalm with our heads and be satisfied in it with our hearts. That’s what the Psalms are for in fighting the fight of faith. “Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you (Psalm 73:25).” Our aim in this life should be nothing less than finding pleasure in knowing and obeying God. Sustained, intense, ever-increasing obedience comes from the emotions of love, joy and hope in God. Sustained, intense, ever-increasing obedience does not come from a sense of doing what you ought to do (duty). When your mind and your heart are synced together in the truth of God’s Word, it becomes a powerful motivation for affectionately pursuing God in obedience. Proper, God-exalting feelings find their roots in powerful, God-revealed truths. The psalms deal with emotions.Įmotions can be used for great good or great evil. What is true in my head doesn’t feel true in my heart.
Too often when I’m struggling with trials or sin, my head knows what is true and right, but my emotions are having a hard time syncing up with that. This book has been one in which I’ve turned to time and again when I have struggled to make the connection between what I know is true in my mind, and what I feel is true in my heart. This will be my 9th sermon from the Psalms. That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.ġ5 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,Īnd for as many years as we have seen evil.ġ6 Let your work be shown to your servants,Īnd your glorious power to their children.ġ7 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,Īnd establish the work of our hands upon us We bring our years to an end like a sigh.ġ1 Who considers the power of your anger,Īnd your wrath according to the fear of you?ġ4 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.ĩ For all our days pass away under your wrath Like grass that is renewed in the morning:Ħ in the morning it flourishes and is renewed ħ For we are brought to an end by your anger Ĩ You have set our iniquities before you, Or ever you had formed the earth and the world,įrom everlasting to everlasting you are God.ĥ You sweep them away as with a flood they are like a dream, Psalm 90 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.Ģ Before the mountains were brought forth,