Psalm 90

This Psalm is actually a prayer of Moses. So many good things are in this chapter. I recommend all of you reading it at least once and just open your heart to what God would have you to learn from it. The Psalm starts out with a great verse. "LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations." Our dwelling place. The word dwell means "to remain for a time" or "to live as a resident." To think of God as my dwelling place...isn't possible. Honestly, God isn't my dwelling place. But He should be. I should be in His Word and living for Him so much that He is my dwelling place. But, He's not...yet. I'm hoping and really striving to change that. The next thing in this chapter that really hits home and really opened my eyes was verses 4-12 (or thereabouts). These verses talk of how a thousand years to us, is but one day to God. And verse 12 says, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." Number our days. In the book I'm going through with the Psalms, there's a suggestion to see how many days you have already lived. And if the Lord allows you to live to be 70...that's about 25,550 days...how many days do you have left? How are you going to live those days? Yeah, it may seem like a lot of days left...but we never know when God will call us home. I've heard lots of messages on this topic about not wasting your life and making every day count for Christ. But until today, my eyes weren't that open about the subject. I surrendered today and prayed that God would help me use every day to honor and glorify HIM and Him alone. A day isn't worth living...if it's not for Christ.

I also read another chapter in the book "The Calvary Road." Again, it was amazing. The title of the chapter is "The Dove and the Lamb." In this chapter, Roy Hession talks about Christ being both. He starts off by using the verse John 1:29, "...behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." As John baptized Jesus, the heavens opened and the Spirit of God descended like a Dove. Roy Hession goes on to talk about these animals picturing Christ's humility. Had Christ not been pictured as a Lamb with humility, submissiveness, and self-surrender, the Dove couldn't have rested upon Him. The Dove would have been frightened if the Lamb wasn't so gentle. This is how we are to be. Just like the Lamb. If we are like the Lamb, then the Dove (the Holy Spirit) can come and abide in us. He can't rest upon us while we aren't broken for Him. Roy Hession gives 5 dispositions of the Lamb. He states that the Lamb is simple (having no plans of helping itself), shorn (willing to be shorn of His rights, His reputation, and every human liberty that was due to Him, just as a lamb is shorn of its wool), silent (while he was facing all that the mockers said to Him that day on the cross, "He answered nothing."), spotless (nothing but love was in His heart that day), and the substitute (taking OUR place on that cross to die a horrible death) lamb. To think of MY sins on that cross with MY Savior...He bore MY horrible and awful sins...so that I may be in Heaven one day. He didn't have to, but He did. He doesn't have to still bear EVERY horrible sin I commit...but He does. Roy Hession gives a little illustration to help us all see Christ carrying our sins. The illustration says that there was a saintly African Christian and one day, as he was climbing up a hill, he heard footsteps behind him. He turned and saw a Man carrying a very heavy load up the hill on his back. As he looked closer, he saw scars on His hands and realized it was Jesus. This man said to Him, "Lord, are you carrying the sins of the world up this hill?" "No," replied Jesus, "not the world's sin, just yours!" At first, this may seem kind of odd to hear, but truly think about it. Christ carrying YOUR sins. MY sins. My heart broke as I read this and realized how many of my sins He was carrying. My prayer is for God to break me and make me more like Him. Look to the cross.