Yet we know only too well the fragility of human life. God is eternal, ‘From everlasting to everlasting you are God’ (Psalm 90:2b). His overwhelming feeling was gratitude and praise because no matter what he had done wrong, he knew that he was forgiven and could know relationship with God.Īs Christians, we can look forward to that relationship lasting for ever. That could seem very negative, but actually for Paul it was quite the opposite. It is not that he got worse it is simply that, through the awesome power of God’s presence, he became more and more aware of the light shining in his heart. Finally, he described himself as ‘the worst of sinners’! (1 Timothy 1:16). Later on, he called himself ‘less than the least of all God's people’ (Ephesians 3:8). The apostle Paul started out by describing himself as ‘the least of the apostles’ (1 Corinthians 15:9). The longer we spend in God’s presence the more the light shines and highlights our sin. The psalmist says, ‘Lord, you have been our dwelling-place… You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence’ (vv.1a, 8). The light of God’s presence reveals the dark places in our hearts – the sins we would like to conceal even from ourselves. He said he realised how sinful his life had been and how much he had been forgiven. A few weeks later, on the Alpha Weekend, he encountered Jesus and was filled with the Holy Spirit. I remember a man in our small group on Alpha saying that he could not understand the concept of ‘sin’, as he ‘led a good life and was not really aware of anything wrong in his life’. Commentary His presence reveals our secret sins Yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow,įor they quickly pass, and we fly away. Our secret sins in the light of your presence.ĩ All our days pass away under your wrath They are like the new grass of the morning:Ĩ You have set our iniquities before you,
Psalm 90 A prayer of Moses the man of God.įrom everlasting to everlasting you are God.ĥ Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death.