Psalm90-OswaldChambers

The speaker is discussing Psalm 90, which is attributed to Moses and titled "From Everlasting to Everlasting." The psalm reflects on the eternal nature of God and the brevity of human life. The speaker is deeply moved by the psalm and engages in prayer and contemplation. They then mention a devotional by Oswald Chambers called "Do You Walk in White?" which emphasizes the need for a spiritual death and resurrection in order to experience sanctification. The speaker encourages the listener to consider whether they have truly experienced this transformative process and urges them to surrender to God's will. Psalm 90, kind of blew me away this morning, Psalm 90 is the only one ascribed to Moses out of all the psalms, and it is titled From Everlasting to Everlasting, I'm going to read it in the amplified version. A prayer of Moses, the man of God, Lord, you have been our dwelling place, our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability in all generations. Before the mountains were born or before you had given birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are the eternal God. You turn man back to dust and say, return to the earth, O children of mortal men. For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it's passed, or as a watch in the night. You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep, forgotten as soon as they are gone. In the morning they are like grass which grows anew, in the morning it flourishes and springs up, in the evening it wilts and withers away. For we have been consumed by your anger and by your wrath we have been terrified. You have placed our wickedness before you, our secret sins which we tried to conceal you have placed in the revealing light of your presence. For all our days pass away in your wrath, we have finished our years like a whispered sigh. The days of our life are seventy years, or even, if because of strength, eighty years. Yet their pride and additional years is only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone and we fly away. Whom understands the power of your anger? Who connects this brevity of life among us with your judgment of sin and your wrath? Who connects it with the reverent fear that is due you? So teach us to number our days that we may cultivate and bring you a heart of wisdom. Turn O Lord from your fierce anger, how long will it be? Be compassionate toward your servants, revoke your sentence, O satisfy us with your loving kindness in the morning, now before we grow older, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, and years we have suffered evil. Let your work, the signs of your power, be revealed to your servants and your glorious majesty to their children. And let the gracious favor of the Lord our God be on us. Confirm for us the work of our hands, yes, confirm the work of our hands. What a great psalm about the brevity of life. I tell you, after reading this, it took me to some prayer and some contemplation. And then I read Oswald Chambers' devotional for today. Nope, I don't believe in coincidences. His devotional is, Do You Walk in White? Today is January 15th, if you want to check out that, 2024. Read it, Do You Walk in White? Romans 6.4 We were buried with him, just as Christ was raised from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life. No one experiences complete sanctification without going through a white funeral, the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crucial moment of change through death, sanctification will be never more than anything but an elusive dream. There must be a white funeral, a death with only one resurrection, a resurrection into the life of Jesus Christ. Nothing can defeat a life like this, it has oneness with God for only one purpose, to be a witness for him. Have you really come to your last days? You have often come to them in your mind, but have you really experienced them? You cannot die or go to your funeral in a mode of excitement. Death means you stop being, you must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death. It is dying, being baptized into his death as it says in Romans 6.3. Have you had your white funeral, or are you piously deceiving your own soul? Has there been a point in your life which you now mark as your last day? Is there a place in your life to go, which you go back in memory with humility and overwhelming gratitude so that you can honestly proclaim, yes, it was then at my white funeral that I made an agreement with God. This is the will of God, your sanctification, as it says in 1 Thessalonians 4.3. Once you truly realize this is God's will, you will enter into the process of sanctification as a natural response. Are you willing to experience that white funeral now? Will you agree with him that this is your last day on earth? The moment of agreement depends on you.