Covenant Reformed News – January 2012 • Volume XIII, Issue 21
This article provides a meditative exposition of Psalm 90, attributed to Moses, exploring how the psalmist's unique perspective as Israel's greatest historian and recorder of human generations informs the psalm's profound reflections on God's eternality and humanity's finite existence in time. The author traces Moses' own life span and the biblical pattern of decreasing human lifespans as context for understanding the psalm's solemn meditation on God's sovereignty over all generations and time itself.
The Eternal God (1) Psalm 90 is, as the heading indicates, the earliest known Psalm and the only one of the 150 written by Moses, plus it is Scripture’s most profound meditation on God and time. There is something entirely appropriate about this in the divine wisdom. Moses is the greatest historian in the Bible. The five books he penned, Genesis to Deuteronomy, span over two and a half millennia. When he wrote, Moses covered the whole period of time that the world had then existed. He even...