Preface: I have been in the habit for quite some time when at the movies to wait in my chair until every last credit scrolls by.....don't ask me why.....but it came in handy tonight after seeing The Last Full Measure.....because I don't like to dab tears in public.....and this few minutes after the film tonight let them dry on their own. It was one of the better Vietnam movies that I've seen....this from someone who cannot relate to the grunt in Vietnam....but I can relate to what went on because of my eighteen months over there....and forty plus years studying it. These actors were about my age.....Ed Harris and Samuel L. Jackson and William Hurt and John Savage....and this ensemble would have been worth it even in a bad movie. Peter Fonda was able to view the film before he died.....and Christopher Plummer was wonderful as he was in Knives Out. The film does not seem to be at too many movie theaters....and who knows how long it will last....and that's too bad.
Well....I turned seventy. I've never paid much attention to birthday numbers before....not fifty or sixty....but seventy years old is more a milestone...."As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years..." (Psalm 90:10)
That Psalm....the 90th.....begins book four of five books contained in the Psalms....I cannot recommend too highly a book on just this subject....The Flow Of The Psalms....Discovering Their Structure And Theology....by O. Palmer Robertson!
In this book he describes Book Four of Psalms as.... "a resurgence of hope in the kingdom of the Davidic Messiah" Psalm 90:12....two verses later is...."So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom." We are to realize that there is a limit to our days....so let us use them wisely.
How long our life will be is a fair question for anyone to ponder upon....but how long will it be until the Lord returns in power and glory....how long until every tear is dried....until wars end....how long until the lamb lay down with the lion.....(to choose that phrase)....how long until the blood of the martyred saints is avenged....how long until our bodies are raised imperishable....how long until the Jewish people see and rejoice in their Messiah....how long until every knee shall bow....and every tongue give praise to God? I don't know the exact answer to these questions....other than....soon....but I know this....as of today....these answers will be seventy years less than they were the day that I was born....and I thank God for these three score and ten years....and the many blessings He has given....and many mercies He has shown!
Well....I turned seventy. I've never paid much attention to birthday numbers before....not fifty or sixty....but seventy years old is more a milestone...."As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength, eighty years..." (Psalm 90:10)
That Psalm....the 90th.....begins book four of five books contained in the Psalms....I cannot recommend too highly a book on just this subject....The Flow Of The Psalms....Discovering Their Structure And Theology....by O. Palmer Robertson!
In this book he describes Book Four of Psalms as.... "a resurgence of hope in the kingdom of the Davidic Messiah" Psalm 90:12....two verses later is...."So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom." We are to realize that there is a limit to our days....so let us use them wisely.
How long our life will be is a fair question for anyone to ponder upon....but how long will it be until the Lord returns in power and glory....how long until every tear is dried....until wars end....how long until the lamb lay down with the lion.....(to choose that phrase)....how long until the blood of the martyred saints is avenged....how long until our bodies are raised imperishable....how long until the Jewish people see and rejoice in their Messiah....how long until every knee shall bow....and every tongue give praise to God? I don't know the exact answer to these questions....other than....soon....but I know this....as of today....these answers will be seventy years less than they were the day that I was born....and I thank God for these three score and ten years....and the many blessings He has given....and many mercies He has shown!
