Homiletic Monthly Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years… I. LIFE'S EARTHLY LIMIT. "Threescore years and ten." 1. How long when viewed in the light of time — when compared with the common lot of mankind. 2. How short when viewed in the light of eternity. II. LIFE'S COMMON HERITAGE. "Yet is their strength labour and sorrow." 1. Life even at its best estate is made up largely of labour and sorrow, of working and weeping. 2. Thank God for the labour and the sorrow, for they help us to rise to higher things. "Before I was afflicted," etc. III. LIFE'S FINAL TRANSITION. "We fly away." 1. Happy transition for the Christian. The restraints of this cage life are ended. 2. Hopeless transition for the Christless. (Homiletic Monthly.) Parallel Verses KJV: The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. |
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