This is about Psalm 90, called a prayer of Moses. Before you read through this passage I want you to ask yourself is this really the kind of prayer that you would expect from someone with Moses professional and spiritual resume. From someone who had been a prince of Egypt, a a successful farmer & rancher, and now a powerful political figure. A man who led three million people out of a racially & politically oppressive situation, who kept them together through a refugee pilgrimage across a desert of 250 to 300 miles, and man of whom it was said met face to face with God. Is this something you would expect him to say? Would you expect someone who has accomplished this much to be so pessimistic about his accomplishments? Would you expect someone who almost single handedly established a nation to be so hopeless about the value of that work?
I think what I like most about this prayer is that it is so accessible for someone like me who has done...how do you say it... squat in this life. It is so unassuming, so humble, so normal, so hopeful for a person with no spiritual or professional resume to flash around the office. It is a prayer that is little about man and all about God. It gives me hope that God will also establish the work of my hands
