How Long is Long
It appears that long is a different length for each and every one of us…
This verse stood out to me this morning at the end of Psalm 91
after I have listened to this specific Scripture countless times.
I play this Psalm for my grandchildren every day
when I am with them and they know it so well now,
they know when it’s finished because this is how the Psalm ends…
“I’ll give you a long life,
give you a long drink of salvation!”
or
“with long life will I satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”
“I will satisfy him with long life,
and will let him see My salvation.”
depending on which version you are listening to or reading…
Then I realised that I don’t have to worry
about how long
long is for me
because God also said in Scripture
that He has chosen where we will live
and He knows how much life He has measured out to me
-worrying about it won’t give me a minute more of life to live.
He knows
and that’s enough for me.
I trust Him.
Live by faith so I can please Him
and hear the words ‘well-done’ my daughter
when I come to the end of living life on this earth
so I will be able to say
I have done all that You called me to do
and completed my course…
Echo Jesus words
‘It is finished’
on that final day
and that my faith won’t fail
because when I have done all that He said
I trust Him to help me
so that I will still be standing until it is my time
to be still
because I am still and know that You are God.
—
Brenda.ps23©
Scriptures and References
Psalm 46 vs 10
“Be still and know that I am God.”
Psalm 91 vs 16
“I’ll give you a long life,
give you a long drink of salvation!”
or
“with long life will I satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”
“I will satisfy him with long life,
and will let him see My salvation.”
Psalm 139 vs 16
“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 31 vs 15
“My times are in Your Hands…”
Job 14 vs 5
“You have decided the length of our lives. A person's days are determined
You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.”
Acts 17 vs 26
“From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”
John 19 vs 30
“It is finished.”