Renew Our Perspective
ReNew Us
January 5, 2025
Chadash = renew or restore
This is a series about our need for spiritual renewal.
I can’t understand who I am until I understand who God is.
Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.” A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning: In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered. —Psalm 90:1-6
1.) GOD IS ETERNAL, I AM TEMPORARY
No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand. —Isaiah 40:15
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. —James 4:14b
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. —Matthew 6:33
What am I living for?
We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. —Psalm 90:7-12
2.) GOD IS HOLY, I SHOULD FEAR HIM
When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. —Romans 5:12
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. —Psalm 90:8
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. —Galatians 6:7-8
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. —Romans 6:23
Those who truly fear, or respect, the Lord should share his hatred of sin. Sin should not be treated with fascination or flirtation but as a fatal attraction to flee. —Dr. Daniel J. Estes
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. —Psalm 90:12
If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. —Hebrews 10:26-27
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom… —Proverbs 9:10a
Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. —Psalm 90:13-14Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble. May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children. —Psalm 90:15-16
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us;
establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands. —Psalm 90:17
3.) GOD IS MY ONLY HOPE, MY LIFE IS HIS
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.
Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” —Exodus 34:5-7A, 7B