Psalm 90 is a portion of Scripture that I return to over and over again. The inspired wisdom of Moses is distilled in this psalm to, perhaps, its most potent form. The words of verse one inspired Isaac Watts to write,
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, our shelter from the stormy blast and our eternal home.
C.H. Spurgeon comments on verse one (read the whole thing HERE):
Verse 1. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
We must consider the whole Psalm as written for the tribes in the desert, and then we shall see the primary meaning of each verse. Moses, in effect, says – wanderers though we be in the howling wilderness, yet we find a home in thee, even as our forefathers did when they came out of Ur of the Chaldees and dwelt in tents among the Canaanites.
Years ago I rearranged the words of that Spurgeon a bit and formed a sentence that I constantly repeat:
Wanderers in the wilderness though we be, yet we find a home in thee.
