Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.
Moses opens by anchoring the people to God's covenant favor before he addresses their misery and judgment. He means to say: yes, you die like all men, yes, God punishes sin, but He has adopted you, and that peculiar grace is your true dwelling place through all generations.
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Commenting on Psalm 90:1-17
Let thy work appear unto thy servants. See how he dwells upon that word servants. It is as far as the law can go, and Moses goes to the full length permitted him henceforth Jesus calls us not servants but friends, and if we are wise we shall make full use of our wider liberty.
Numbering our days rightly is an art we must learn from God: we must live under constant weight of death's nearness, compare our work to our time, and mind it with double diligence. True wisdom is serious godliness, and frequent thoughts of our swift removal hence will stir us mightily toward it.
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Commenting on Psalm 90:12-17