There are seasons when God calls us to build, serve, lead, and pour into others. We step forward with good intentions, but even the most willing hearts can become tired. Sometimes we wonder if our efforts matter. Sometimes the work feels overwhelming, the results feel invisible, or the road ahead feels longer than expected.
In those moments, we need the reminder that God’s work was never meant to be carried by our strength alone. Psalm 90 is a prayer asking God to teach us how to use our days wisely, to satisfy us with His presence, and to establish the work of our hands. It reminds us that while our time and strength are limited, God is eternal, and He is the One who gives purpose and lasting impact to what we do.
May this Psalm encourage you to keep going. May it remind you that God sees your faithfulness, strengthens you in your weakness, and breathes purpose into every step you take for His Kingdom.
Psalm 90
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Stay Blessed x
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