His Story: A journey through the greatest story of all time
The Bible isn’t just an old book—it’s God’s story, and it’s still alive today. His Story takes you chapter by chapter through Scripture, combining simple readings of God’s Word with prayer for every listener and occasional reflections on what the passage means for our lives right now.
Whether you’re brand new to the Bible or have been reading it for years, this podcast is a space to slow down, hear God’s Word spoken, and be reminded that His story is also our story.
His Story: A journey through the greatest story of all time
A Wanderer Finds Home In The Timeless One
Time is short, but meaning doesn’t have to be. We open Psalm 90 with Moses and step into the tension between God’s eternity and our brief, dust-bound days. Instead of spiraling into fear, we follow the psalm’s path toward wisdom: number your days, seek steadfast love each morning, and ask God to establish the work of your hands so your ordinary life can carry extraordinary weight.
We read Psalm 90 aloud, then unpack its language and imagery—the grass that withers by evening, the thousand years that feel like yesterday, and the ache of a people in the wilderness. From there, we move into practice. What does it look like to count our days without anxiety? How do we pursue joy in deserts? Why does the Hebrew sense of establish as make firm change the way we think about success, impact, and legacy? Along the way, we draw on the body metaphor to remind us that every role matters. The hand cannot replace the eye, the big toe cannot dismiss the ear; each gift adds strength to the whole.
By the end, you’ll have a simple rhythm to carry into tomorrow: begin with gratitude for God’s unbreakable love, choose what matters most with clear-eyed intentionality, and offer your daily work to be made durable beyond the moment. Whether you’re leading a team, changing diapers, writing code, or caring for a neighbor, there’s room for your work to echo in eternity when it’s rooted in God’s purposes. If this conversation helps you see your time and tasks in a new light, share it with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a review with one practice you’ll try this week.
The Bible isn’t just an old book—it’s God’s story, and it’s still alive today. His Story takes you chapter by chapter through Scripture, combining simple readings of God’s Word with prayer for every listener and occasional reflections on what the passage means for our lives right now.
Whether you’re brand new to the Bible or have been reading it for years, this podcast is a space to slow down, hear God’s Word spoken, and be reminded that His story is also our story.
Welcome back to His Story, a journey through the greatest story of all time. Today we listen to Moses' prayer in Psalm 90, a song that reminds us how brief life is and how eternal God remains. Psalm 90 is the only psalm attributed to Moses. It's a confession of frailty wrapped in faith. Israel's wilderness obituary, 40 years of funerals, framed by mercy. That's what the psalm is about. Moses contrasts the timelessness of God, from everlasting to everlasting, with the dustbound brevity of man. John Piper observes that numbering our days is not morbid. It's why stewardship. In Hebrew, the word to establish means to make firm or stable. A prayer for lasting fruit from fleeting lives. Let's get started. God, thank you so much for this day that you've given us. Thank you for providing for all of our needs, including the beautiful sunshine that we see, the oxygen that's in our lungs, the food that comes up out of the ground, the animals, for our friends, for our family, for our churches, for everything that we need to not only survive, but to truly thrive. We thank you for all of that. Thank you for this psalm of Moses today that we can read. May it speak deeply to us about who we are and who you are. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. You return man to dust and say, Return, O children of man. For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, or as a watch in the night. You sweep them away as with a flood. They are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning. In the morning it flourishes and is renewed. In the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger. By your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath. We bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength, eighty. Yet their span is but toil and trouble. They are soon gone and we fly away. Who considers the power of your anger and your wrath according to the fear of you? So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long? Have pity on your servants. Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us. Yes, establish the work of our hands. The word of the Lord. Before mountains, before dust, before time. God was home. Moses, a man of tense, a wanderer, knew what it meant to live without permanence, yet he found his rest in the eternal one. Then comes the contrast. The Hebrew word for dust means crushed fine. Life is fragile. But the prayer that follows shifts the tone. Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Counting our days is not about anxiety, but about intentionality. It's about making every day count. It's about focusing on what matters most as often as possible. Because truly none of us know. None of us know when our finish line will be here. None of us know when we cross the tape. None of us know when we take our last breath. And then Moses asks, satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love. That word means covenant mercy, unearned, unbreakable love. Moses prays for joy in a desert, for purpose in a wilderness, and most importantly for permanence in God. This psalm ends with that beautiful benediction, establish the work of our hands. The same God who formed galaxies can make your daily work echo in eternity. And it doesn't matter what that work is. God has something different for each one of us that's a part of his purpose, a part of his plan. And I love how Paul talks about this in Romans when he talks about the body and how important every part of the body is. The big toe can't say to the ear, I don't need you, because you don't help me walk. You know, the hand can't say to the eye, I don't need you, because I can feel things without you. It doesn't it doesn't work that way. We need every part of the body in order for our body to work as it was intended. And it's the same way with all of us, no matter what our work is, no matter what our ministry is, each one of us is needed for the work that God wants to accomplish on this earth. And so may we, no matter what we're doing, echo this final verse, this final request. Lord, establish the work of our hands. Help us to be successful so that we have the opportunity to show people about your love, about your steadfast love, about how much you care for them. Establish the work of our hands. What a great way to end this psalm and this thought, this day, as we think about what are we doing today and are we doing it all to the glory of God. God, thank you for this passage, for this psalm, for this the words of Moses, just sharing with us how he was feeling and where he was at, and his plea for you to be with him and to establish the work of his hands. God, that is our prayer today. Whatever we're doing, that we would do it for your glory, for your good, and that you would establish our work so that we may tell others about you. Thank you again for this passage, and thank you for always providing for all of our needs. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Next time we'll meet a Pharisee named Nicodemus in John 3 and hear Jesus explain what it truly means to be born again. Until next time, remember, Jesus wrote the greatest story ever told, and that includes loving you and me completely. See you next time.
