Psalms 90:1

"Lord, you have been our refuge in every generation." (It may help us understand this psalm if we recollect the circumstances which surrounded Moses when he was in the desert. For forty years he had to see a whole generation of people die in the wilderness. In addition to the deaths that might occur among those who were born in the wilderness, the whole of that great host which came out of Egypt, numbering probably between two and three million persons, must lie in their graves in the desert so that there must have been constant funerals. The march of the children of Israel could be perceived along the desert track by the graves they left behind them. We do not wonder, therefore, at this expression of the awe of "Moses, the man of God" as he was so continually reminded of the mortality of mankind. And note how reverently and trustfully he turns to the ever-living and eternal God and finds "refuge" in him).

Charles H. Spurgeon