...all in God's time...

Today is January 2, 2026, and I would like to invite you to spend some time with me and the Psalms. I was introduced to the Psalms by Fr. Philip King, a great teacher of the Psalms. I was a student at Boston College, and whenever he was my Professor, the class was filled with Rabbinic students from a nearby seminary. Fr. Philip King was a Biblical archaeologist and a linguist in all the languages of the biblical middle east. He loved the Psalms and led me to fall in love with them.

The Psalms are songs and poems that help you and me ask two important questions about our life: Who am I, and what am I doing here on earth - now? In other words, how am I living in the world today, and how am I celebrating my life today? The Psalms help us understand who Jesus is. More than anything else about the Psalms, they are meant to be used in our daily prayer, and the Psalms are to be lived! I cannot live the Christian life without the Psalms. In the Psalms we will come to realize how BIG God’s world is. So let’s get going and embrace the Psalms in our daily prayer.

As I age and approach the moment God calls me home, I realize how different God’s time is and my time. So I begin our journey in the Psalms with this:

So teach us to count our days

that we may gain a wise heart. (Psalm.90:12)

Make us, in other words, to be people who know how to stand on the threshold of human time and God’s time. Remember, God-created time, our time here on earth, is time that God does not live in or need. So this text from Ps.90:12 speaks to me to learn to live life in both humility and hope.

Our time is not worthless, but it is only God who makes our time — good time! We have no control over our time or circumstances — only God does.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, 

and for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 Let your work be manifest to your servants, 

and your glorious power to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, 

and prosper for us the work of our hands — 

O prosper the work of our hands! (Psalm 90:15-17)

Any blessing in our life comes from God’s goodness, and not from our control of our circumstances.

So today in your prayer, pray for forgiveness, pray for faith, pray for God to bring you back to Him so that He may pour out His goodness on you, which is His holy Spirit. After all, are we not all living on the threshold of time?

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.

From the Bible:

“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master’” Matthew 25:23.

“But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man” Luke 21:36.

“A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished” Proverbs 28:20.

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me” Psalm 23:4.