“Let the sunrise of Your love end our dark night. Break through our clouded dawn again! Only You can satisfy our hearts, filling us with songs of joy to the end of our days” (Psalm 90:14)

The King James says: “Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days!” This psalm is a prayer by Moses, recognising the feebleness of man and earth before their Creator. He opened his prayer saying: “Lord, You have always been our eternal home, our hiding place from generation to generation. Long before You gave birth to the earth and before the mountains were born, You have been from everlasting to everlasting, the one and only true God” (Psalm 90:1-2). Before all created things has been God, everlasting to everlasting! One thousand years pass before His eyes like yesterday that quickly faded away (Psalm 90:4). Before Him, we are like the bright ”grass that springs up one day… and withered the next…” (Psalm 90:6). Even our faults and flaws are in full view of Him. “Everything we want to hide, You search out and expose by the radiance of Your face” (Psalm 90:8).

Before such a splendid and flawless God, what else should we desire to have? So, Moses prayed: “Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy.” Moses recognised every man’s need for it saying “satisfy us.” Good news! God did this through Jesus! God, who is rich is mercy (Ephesians 2:4), adopted us in Christ, “according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6)! In Jesus, we find God’s mercies, which daily make us rejoice eternally, overwhelming us with gladness (Psalm 90:15). Amen.

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