In his sermon on Psalm 90, Pastor Steve began with prayer, asking God to remove distractions and open hearts to hear His Word. He explained that Psalm 90, written by Moses, addresses the brevity of human life in contrast with the eternity of God. The psalm reminds us that our days are short—seventy, maybe eighty years, often filled with toil and trouble—yet it calls us to “number our days” so that we may gain wisdom and live with joy. The Pastor emphasized that this message becomes even more powerful when we consider Moses’ life. Moses was a man without a permanent earthly home—rescued as a baby in a basket, raised in Pharaoh’s palace where he never fully belonged, exiled as a fugitive, wandering the wilderness for forty years, and ultimately never entering the Promised Land himself. Moses was a nomad, yet he wrote, “Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.” He had discovered that his true home was not in any physical place but in God Himself.
Pastor Steve connected this to his own story, sharing about the house where his wife had died of cancer. For years he told himself it was “just a space,” but after moving, he realized how deeply the old house had weighed on him and how God used a new home as a source of healing. He reflected that where we live shapes us—sometimes more than we realize. Likewise, Psalm 90 teaches that if we “count our days” while living only in the context of toil and trouble, life seems fleeting and empty. But if we count our days in the dwelling place of God, we discover a context of eternity where His compassion renews us each morning, His steadfast love satisfies us, and His joy outlasts affliction and evil.
The true message of Psalm 90, Steve said, is not only that life is short compared to God’s eternity but that we already live in God’s house. Moses declared not that God will one day be our home, but that He already is. Therefore, our lives—even in hardship—are held in the shelter of the eternal God. Steve concluded by urging us to ask, as Moses did, for God to teach us to number our days in the context of His eternal dwelling, so that we may gain a wise heart and rejoice all our days.