You Are God - Psalm 90

This is my creative project for Essentials in Worship Theology. The course focused heavily upon the nature of God, so that was where I focused. When I think about "knowing God", the first person that comes to mind is Moses, who we are told the Lord knew "face to face" (Deut. 34:10).

There are a few places in the Bible referred to as a "song of Moses". One of those places is Deut. 32, and I had wanted to try and pull a song from that passage, but was finding it difficult to settle upon a single theme among many. So my very wise wife directed me to Psalm 90, another "song of Moses". Since the Psalms were written to be sung, they contain more of a natural cadence even after translation to English. So in the spirit of John Calvin, I went with Psalm 90.

Psalm 90 is an awesome passage, because it is both a praise and a prayer to God. There is a lot of talk of anger, fear, and wrath in this passage, which Moses knew well after having wandered in the wilderness for 40 years with his people and seeing a fair number of them struck down when they rebelled against God. But there is also talk of God as a provider and a caretaker of mankind, describing Him as "our dwelling place in all generations". The passage progresses from praise to prayer in verse 13, where Moses asks God to have compassion on His servants, and ends in a beautiful benediction in verse 17 - "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us."

I am first and foremost a piano player, with songwriter being a distant second, and vocalist being a very distant third. So I have sung the song to give everyone an idea of what I think it should sound like, but please excuse the vocals. I'm sure that there are many others who could better do it justice:-)