Psalm 90 - A prayer of Moses, the man of God.

This is what our guest speaker talked about in church today. And I REALLY loved that! So I thought I would share these passages with you in hopes that you learn from them as much as I learned from them.

Psalm 90

1: Lord, You have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.

2: Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

3: You turn people back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, you mortals."

4: A thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

5: Yet You sweep people away in the sleep of death- they are like the new grass of the morning:

6: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

7: We are consumed by Your anger and terrified by your indignation.

8: You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

9: All our days pass away under Your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
10: Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

11: If only we knew the power of Your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is Your due.

12: Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

13: Relent, LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

14: Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

15: Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.

16: May Your deeds be shown to Your servants, Your splendor to their children.

17: May the favor of the Lord, our God, rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us- yes, establish the work of our hands.

I just love how powerful this shows our God to be! He is our dwelling place, our home! Our house isn't a home until we think of it as a home. And to me, until I invite God into my house, it isn't a home. But in the first verse, it shows that God is our home! He is our dwelling place. Such a comfort to know that wherever we go, God goes with us, and that makes it a home. What an awesome God we have! What a powerful, loving Heavenly Father we have!

And while reading this, I can feel the power of God in me. I can feel His love wrapping around me. The speaker talked about how we know God's love is there because we read the Bible and read about how He loves us. But a lot of times we feel like His love is distant and that He only pops in like a distant uncle.

We know the truth of God and His love for us, but do we truly believe it? Most of us don't believe it until we experience it. When His loving arms wrap around us in a comforting embrace, only then do we truly know that our God is here and loves us, am I right?

God will seem like He isn't there sometimes. But this week, I listened to someone's testimony and an example that he gave of a time like this is a father and his baby who is learning to walk. The father steps back sometimes and waits for the child to take his first steps alone and walk into his arms. The child will fall a lot of times, but the father is always there to catch him. It's all in the process of learning. It's God giving us space to learn about following Him. And learning to trust that He will be there waiting to catch us when we fall. God never leaves us. He is always here. He's just standing back so that we can learn to take those trusting steps to Him.

Our God is a powerful God. And in times like these, we can walk towards God and feel His loving embrace again as we fall into His arms. So it works like this:

God lets go and takes a step back.

We know that God still loves us.

We take the trusting steps forward.

Sure, we fall a couple times.

But God is always here to catch us.

We just need to trust Him.

We fall into His open arms.

And we experience His love for us as He holds us in His arms.

Thank You, God, for being such a wonderful Father. Thank You for creating us and for loving us and for comforting us in our times of need. Thank You for wrapping Your arms around us and for being our Dwelling Place. And thank You, Father God, for catching us when we fall.

Amen <3