Good Monday Morning.  Here’s Today’s Nugget to chew on:

“Let’s Set the Record Straight”

Psalm 90:10 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

The days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride [in additional years] only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.

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Further Thought:  Most of us have heard the above scripture used at funerals, and most of the time in the wrong manner. So I wanted to share the explanation of the above scripture taken from the footnotes of the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC):

Psalm 90:10 is credited to Moses, who is interceding with God to remove the curse which made it necessary for every Israelite over twenty years of age (when they rebelled against God at Kadesh-barnea) to die before reaching the promised land (Numbers 14:26-35). Moses says most of them are dying at seventy years of age. This number has often been mistaken as a set span of life for all mankind. It was not intended to refer to anyone except those Israelites under the curse during that particular forty years. Seventy years never has been the average span of life for humanity. When Jacob, the father of the twelve tribes, had reached 130 years (Genesis. 47:9), he complained that he had not attained to the years of his immediate ancestors. In fact, Moses himself lived to be 120 years old, Aaron 123, Miriam several years older, and Joshua 110 years of age. Note as well that in the Millennium a person dying at 100 will still be thought a child (Isaiah. 65:20).

Here’s what God said is available to you and me in Genesis 6:3 New Life Version (NLV), “Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years.” So, even if you don’t desire to live to be 120, I want to encourage you not to leave until you are satisfied.  Don’t leave until you have done all God has given you to do.  Now, understand, just because you had a loved one die before they reached 120 doesn’t mean they were under a curse. No, all it means is that more was available, and for whatever reason, they couldn’t receive it.

Have a great day, and keep chewing on God’s Word.

Additional references: Proverbs 4:20-22 and 2 Peter 1:3-4      

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” 2025 Stop & Listen”

Today’s Recommended Reading 1 Thessalonians 5