From Beginning to End, You Are God

Continueing our study of Jesus' lordship, Thursday we talked about Jesus being Lord of time. This discussion could have in a variety of directions, but yesterday we focused on the big picture scope of time, and both God and ourselves relate. We started by taking a look at these few verses from Psalm 90: 1-6:

Lord, through all the generations you have been our home!

Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world

from beginning to end, you are God.

You turn people back to dust, saying, 'Return to dust, you mortals!'

For you, a thousand years are as a passing day, as brief as a few night hours.

You sweep people away like dreams that disappear. They are like grass that springs up in the morning.

In the morning it blooms and flourishes, but by evening it is dry and withered. 

 As a group, we made a list of some of the things this passage tells us about God, us, and tie. For God, the guys came up with some great stuff. God's over time, He was before creation, He's eternal. He's forever. On the contrary, we talked about us. We are temporary, fading, short life, not in control of time, not in control over the time of our life. 

 We summed up with 2 undisputed facts that this passage tells us about our time here on earth. 

     1. We all will die

     2. We don't control our time

Why does this matter to us, why does the psalmist tell us this stuff?

We closed by answering this question and looking at verse 12. Psalm 90:12 reads, "Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom". Death is inevitable, and our lives are temporary. This is a reality that is all to familiar to most kids growing up in East St. Louis. Jesus being Lord over time means that, although our lives are short, though we don't know when death will call our name, Jesus is Lord, who alone can give us eternal life. The time we have in our lives is meant to point us to Jesus, the author of time, who alone can grant to us eternal life.