Charles Spurgeon: Psalm 90
Verse 1. Lord, You have 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 You, even as our forefathers did when
they came out of Ur of the Chaldees and dwelt in tents among the
Canaanites.
To the saints the Lord Jehovah, the self existent God, stands instead
of mansion and rooftree; He shelters, comforts, protects, preserves,
and cherishes all His own. Foxes have holes and the birds of the air
have nests, but the saints dwell in their God, and have always done so
in all ages.
Not in the tabernacle or the temple do we dwell, but in God himself;
and this we have always done since there was a church in the world. We
have not shifted our abode. Kings' palaces have vanished beneath the
crumbling hand of time—they have been burned with fire and buried
beneath mountains of ruins, but the imperial race of heaven has never
lost its regal habitation.
Where dwelt our fathers a hundred generations since, there dwell we still.
It is most sweet to speak with the Lord as Moses did, saying, "Lord,
You are our dwelling place", and it is wise to draw from the Lord's
eternal condescension reasons for expecting present and future mercies,
as the Psalmist did in the next Psalm wherein he describes the safety of
those who dwell in God.
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