JMD Devotional 203 Psalm 90:16,17 The Work of Our Hands

Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants, and Your [glorious] majesty to their children. And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.

There are two predominant worldviews in competition today; Theism and Naturalism. Naturalism states that the material Universe is all there is and ever will be; that man is only a highly evolved, soulless animal that “secretes thought like the liver secretes bile” (Cabanis, quoted by Copleston, 1961). Naturalism leaves us orphaned as cosmic accidents, without meaning or purpose or significance.

Theism, on the other hand, asserts that God created a material Universe that He was not originally a part of. The reason we have artists, engineers, philosophers, musicians, poets, architects, physicians, leaders and accountants is that we were all made in the image of God and we bear His imprint, (though dimly after the Great Fall). Our conscience could not have evolved; self-sacrifice is counter-evolutionary; we were given an inherent sense of right and wrong. We have a purpose and there is a design to everything from snowflakes to your birth date.

Psalm 90 is a prayer of Moses, and he asks twice for God to confirm and establish the works of our hands. This is fitting because our best work, our excellence, reflects the glory of the God who made us. We were made to shine and shine brightly. Excel and seek God’s blessing on your work. The work of our hands is transitive to the work of His hands. This pleases Him.

Dear God,
You lift me up and elevate the worth and dignity of all humanity. How can I know anything at all apart from You? You have told me who I am and where I am going; no one else can do this; the answers are nowhere else. May Your people revere Your holiness, and reflect it in their life and work and recreation, for Your glorious kingdom.
Amen

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