Devotion:
Read Psalm 90:1-2.
Over the years, this became a very personal passage for me because I have had to move several times in my life. I’ve called many places “home.” One translation of this passage from the Psalmist says “Lord, you have been our home forever.” It was written out of the life experience of a nomadic people. Their history was full of moving to different places and often not having a place to call home. The Psalmist acknowledges that God is our true home; that wherever we are, we can still have a sense of being home when we have established a personal relationship with God. It is God who gave you life and you will only be complete, whole, “home” when you are connected to your Creator.
At our Funday Sunday worship service tomorrow morning, the message for the day is “Take A Load Off.” Home is the place we most naturally and regularly do that. It’s the place where we can relax, put our “comfy clothes” on and get some rest. It’s the place where we can get the sleep we need. We rest and sleep where we feel safe. Ultimately and most fully, the only “place” to do that is with God. No matter where you are, with God, you are home.
Personal Worship Option:
Here are two verses of an old prayer hymn by Isaac Watts that are based on this Psalm:
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come,
our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home!
O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come;
be thou our guide while life shall last, and our eternal home.
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