Deuteronomy 34:1-3 (NIV)
Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it."

(Read alongside Psalm 90)

[TQ]
I like the idea of having a God-sized dream. I can see also that it's OK for one to never partake of it fully. I remember what JW has said a couple of times: have a dream so big that you never reach it during your lifetime. Although Moses was probably bummed that HE couldn't get into the Promised land, he seemed to be content and perhaps proud of the journey that he had been on.

Wow! That's an incredible journey. If I were him, I'd be happy for what I had done for these people, and especially grateful for my willingness to hear God and obey. I appreciate the insight on Moses' perspective. It's always more fulfilling to know the background of a passage. It's gives it more life and meaning. When I read this passage, I, too, tried to put myself in Moses' shoes; yet from a different perspective.

Thanks for the insights, viewing the same thing from a different angle. That perspective helped me see that Moses could have been on a moanful trip of self-pity, or as a destructive tornado of anger towards God. Yet this prayer shows a maturity from Moses that wasn't present especially during the time when he smashed the original 10 commandments. I didn't realize that this psalm came from a place of maturity, objectivity and selflessness, which I wouldn't have expected from Moses.

Honestly, I wouldn't have expected it from myself. But there it is, another character of the Bible modeling for us the right way of being a Christian. He sits in the presence of the Lord and is honest, and the Lord ministers to him accordingly. Whether by discipline or by tenderness, God comes to us in His presence and fathers us every time. I imagine Moses, as last week, was in the presence of God and wrote this psalm out of honesty and faith, knowing that his heavenly Father's unfailing love would accept with open arms Moses' rawness.