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Scripture Meditation No. 1631
AATHAVAN | Saturday, 26.07.2025
"Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil." — Psalm 90:15
Today's meditation verse is a prayerful plea from Moses, the man of God. Moses lived 120 years, and his life can be clearly divided into three stages of forty years each. The first forty years were spent in the palace, as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. The next forty years were marked by hardship as a shepherd in the wilderness. The final forty years were lived walking with God and leading the people of Israel through the desert.
Moses did not only endure hardship during his years as a shepherd, but even in the final forty years, while leading the Israelites, he faced great distress due to their hardened hearts and constant disobedience. Yet in the midst of all this, he received glorious spiritual experiences—he walked with God and had the blessed privilege of seeing God face to face.
As per his prayer—"Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil"—God filled Moses with spiritual joy and led him through life.
Perhaps your life today feels diminished. Maybe you're going through pain, lacking the wealth, blessings, or employment others enjoy. But we need not despair or be disheartened. Like Moses, let us pray earnestly:
"Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil."
In many families, one generation suffers for the benefit of the next. When the children grow up, receive education, and rise to good positions, the past struggles and hardships are forgotten. Joy fills the family again. This is natural. Yet in moments when there seems to be no hope, and no way to escape suffering, God often steps in and transforms the old life of pain—He revives their spiritual life as well.
Yes, beloved, before God blesses a person outwardly, He first desires to transform their inner life. In other words, before worldly blessings, God seeks to deepen our spiritual growth. He first reforms us, strengthens us, and establishes us. Only then does He give enduring blessings—those that bring true and lasting joy. This is exactly how He established Moses.
This is affirmed by the Apostle Peter, who said:
"But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." — 1 Peter 5:10 (KJV)
Therefore, dear ones, even if trials and sufferings seem to take away our joy, let us not lose heart. Let us cling to God and, like Moses, present our pleas to Him. Let us strive to live lives pleasing to Him. Then He shall surely make us glad according to the days of our affliction and the years we have seen evil. Our lives shall be truly blessed.
God’s Message by: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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