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About three hundred years ago Isaac Watts composed a hymn beginning, “O God our help in ages past, our hope for years to come.”  What a hymn it is, affirming that God the helper is most emphatically involved with His creation and its history.  Watts’ hymn is based on the first five verses of Psalm ninety.  Moses is the likely author of that Bible song and did not use the word ‘help’ at all when he wrote it, in fact, the idea of God the helper is not the dominant thought in the song, instead, the eternity of God and the transience of man are the focus.  Man, made of dust, is to make his home in God the Everlasting One; man and his years are like the grass that flourishes in the morning and is faded and withered by nightfall.