Psalm 90.  Moses highlights our dependence upon God and his sovereignty over all humanity in this prayer by using the same word in two different senses. The word is RETURN! First, Moses shows our dependence upon God for life by showing our mere mortality (3). He returns us to the dust with a mere command after we have spent our seventy or eighty years of trouble. All our mortal lives are spent within the One who is our dwelling place. He is immortal and we are not.  Second, Moses shows God’s sovereignty in our lives by imploring him to return his favor and salvation to us (13).  Our years of affliction and wrath can be remedied by a simple turn in direction by the sovereign omnipotent God.

LORD, RETURN your grace upon our land before you RETURN us all to dust.