Days of Our Lives

In Psalm 90, Moses declares that from “everlasting to everlasting” (v.2) God is God and beyond human accounting of time: “a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday when past” (v.4). Moses asserts that God’s wrath and anger are within His authority (v.11). He judges His people for their sin (vv.8-9) and we are but toast (translation mine). All this would point to us being given our just due were it not for the bookends to this psalm. It begins by highlighting God’s presence among His people throughout all generations (v.1) and the entire last section (vv.12-17) is a plea for God’s help in the here in the now (v.11, 15) - that is, in the dailyness of our routines (v.14), and in the activities of the present (v.17). How bold then is this prayer, knowing that though God is above all and infinite, we nevertheless ask that He be merciful to us in our present days, even in the mundane.