God had told Moses that he would send an angel before the people as they battle their way into the Promised Land.[i] Most of us would be elated to have a commanding angel marching out in front of us! Evidently, Moses wasn’t satisfied. While an angel would be splendid, he wanted something (Someone) much more. …
“Establish the work of our hands…”
Allow me one final word on Moses’ one and only Psalm (90). It’s all about our aging and dying versus God’s eternal agelessness. While our beauty wanes, his retains and maybe even increases in glory. Moses seems to have written the poem just before he hiked up Nebo and died, a ripe 120 years old. …
What’s This About the “Beauty of God”? (Psalm 90:17)
I mentioned in previous posts that having turned seventy this year I’m feeling every pain and taking all the pills to prove it. We septuagenarians and beyond may whine and complain, but one thing we can be thankful for is the diminishing struggle against peer pressure! In my case, seventy is the new eighty and …
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What of Old Age and the Beauty of God (Part 2)
“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures.” (Psalm 90:10) I was in a restaurant with a few of my much younger friends when the five-year old boy sitting next to me in the booth reached up, took a pinch of my sagging neck skin, and said, “Why are you …
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