The Bible is a vast treasury, full of gold mines for anyone willing to dig. The surface is rich, but the deepest wealth is found by those who keep going down.
Psalm 90: The Ocean of Eternity
Psalm 90 is among the deepest oceans in Scripture. It is too deep to measure and too wide to cross, and its waters carry us all the way into eternity. Moses opens with God as the dwelling place of every generation, and then looks back to a time before the mountains were born. God did not begin when creation began. He was already there, and He will still be there when the last page of history is turned. The psalm shows God’s sovereignty running unbroken from eternity past to eternity future. Against that backdrop, Moses prays that we would learn to number our days and gain a heart of wisdom. Once we see how vast God is, we begin to see how brief we are, and how precious each day becomes.
The Burning Bush: The Mine with Four Hundred Years of Depth
The burning bush (Exodus 3) is one of the deepest mines in the Bible. Its depth reaches back at least four hundred years, to the long silence of Israel’s slavery in Egypt, when it seemed that heaven had forgotten the promise made to Abraham. Then a bush burned without being consumed, and the God who had never forgotten spoke. He revealed His name, “I AM WHO I AM,” the self-existent One who needs no beginning and has no end. The more we dig here, the more we find: holy ground, a call, a deliverer, and a God who sees affliction, hears cries, and comes down to rescue. Much of what lies in this mine is still hidden, waiting for those who will take off their sandals and stay a while.
Psalm 84: The Beauty of His Courts – A Millennial experience
If Psalm 90 is an ocean to dive into, Psalm 84 is a courtyard to walk into. It gives a breathtaking glimpse of the courts of the living God, and the psalmist’s soul faints with longing for them. The greatest beauty of those courts is Jesus Himself. The psalm says one day there is better than a thousand elsewhere, so a single moment in His presence outweighs a millennium of anything else. It is a millennial experience, because the presence of Christ holds the richness of a thousand years in one day.