The Brevity Of Me

James MacDonald Audio Podcast

James MacDonald Ministries

Religion & Spirituality

4.0 • 558 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

God is eternal and immutable. We are small and temporary. Our lives are merely a moment – a vapor that appears for a little while and vanishes. Allowing this truth to sink in will bring perspective and sharpen your focus on how to live, right now, right where you are today! Open your Bible to Psalm 90 for The Brevity of Me. Dr. James MacDonald preaches without apology straight from the pages of Scripture, provoking Christians to think and act on their faith. For more information on James MacDonald Ministries, or to subscribe for devotionals and ministry updates visit: jamesmacdonaldministries.org Follow on social media:IG: bit.ly/JamesMacDonald-IGFB: bit.ly/JamesMacDonald-FBTW: bit.ly/JamesMacDonald-TW

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0:00.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:03.3	Welcome to the James McDonald's podcast where we say love to live to love.
0:08.5	That's our focus, that's our passion.
0:11.1	And we invite you to let God's Word have that impact in your life right now.
0:15.8	Here's Pastor James.
0:18.2	We're in the songbook of the Bible, which is the middle book in the Bible.
0:23.5	It's called Psalms, and each one individually is numbered.
0:28.8	There are 150 Psalms, which is a word for song.
0:33.8	They're actually written as poetry, but because the Bible, the Old Testament is written in Hebrew,
0:40.3	the poetic nature, the meter, the rhyming, the phonetics, all of it, it doesn't show up as much in English.
0:49.3	The poetry of it is kind of lost to us through translation, but the words are transmitted accurately into the language that we speak.
0:58.9	Last time we talked about the eternality of God,
1:02.2	and I want to start with this phrase as we pick up Psalm 90 and verse 3.
1:08.1	Think through this little quote with me.
1:10.2	Sometimes the best news is the bad news that opens up the way for the good news.
1:18.8	What do you think about that?
1:20.1	Think about that again.
1:21.4	Sometimes the best news is the bad news that opens up the way for the good news. Is that true? Nobody likes the bad news.
1:32.9	Nobody wants the bad news. Nobody's like, hey, hey, hey, give me some bad news, but, but, and all God's
1:38.9	people said, but, but sometimes the bad news, the best news is the bad news that opens up the way for the good news.
1:47.8	For example, I remember very clearly riding home in a taxi from O'Hare Airport in October of 2008 when the doctor told me that the test results from my biopsy were in and that I had a prostate cancer.
2:05.4	And if you had a told me in that day or in that month or during that 10 weeks of treatment
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