Whatever life we have is His gift to us, and not our own. He is the one source of life to the entire universe. In the morning in flourisheth and groweth up: in the evening it is cut down and withereth.” “The days of our years are threescore years and ten,” but God “is from everlasting to everlasting.” In His sight, a thousand years are but as a watch in the night. The Psalm from which our text is taken sets before us in a most striking way the weakness of man, the shortness of his life, in relation to the infinite power and eternity of the Lord.
If we can see that “underneath are the everlasting arms” ( Deuteronomy 33:27), leading men by the way that the Lord alone knows to be best, and if we have been brought to a deeper trust in Him, the year that is closing could have brought no greater blessing. In this larger field also we can look back and see the loving providence of the Lord, leading nations out of sorrows and conflicts, and causing them to hope for better thing to come. More and more we are coming to realize that the day of isolation is passed and that what happens in the world at large affects us as individuals, and affects the future.
World cooperation is a slogan of the day. But we can look back upon the year that is passed, and see the Lord’s goodness to us.
“The days of our years are threescore years and ten: and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” Psalm 90:10 This explanation was first giving as a sermon following the new year.
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