In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devo...
Join pastor Dane Ortlund, best-selling author of Gentle and Lowly, Monday through Friday each week on a journey through all 150 psalms in the Bible.
Listen as he reads and reflects on each psalm in full—helping us see what these Scriptural songs tell us about God, about ourselves, and about the grace that the Lord offers to us with open hands.
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Psalm 119 - Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet
Having redeemed his people and brought us through grace into relationship with him, God now lovingly instructs us in the way to enjoy fullness of life.
15 min
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Psalm 118 - His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
Have you been rejected, today, by someone who ought to have accepted you? You are in good company. Take heart. God draws near to you in his rejected, crucified Son.
4 min
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Psalm 117 - The Lord’s Faithfulness Endures For...
If grace is truly gracious, then you are permanently forgiven, liberated, rinsed clean. Let your delight in this freedom bubble over into telling others of what they too might enjoy.
1 min
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Psalm 116 - I Love the Lord
We will remember that the phrase “Gracious is the Lord” went from abstract truth to concrete reality in the incarnation. Then God really came out of heaven into our pain. Could he possibly have given us more reason to trust and love him?
3 min
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Psalm 115 - To Your Name Give Glory
Only in Christ are we truly secure. Trust in him. Hope in him. Bank on him. Only he will never let you down.
3 min
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Psalm 114 - Tremble at the Presence of the Lord
The natural elements can intimidate even mature adults. Many of us have driven through intense downpours of rain or been woken up to a peal of thunder right overhead. This psalm insists, however, that the Lord uses the natural elements to care for us, to serve us.
2 min
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Psalm 113 - Who Is like the Lord Our God?
Are you distraught? Are you perplexed by life? The Lord of heaven is drawn like a magnet to your distress. Open up to him. Welcome him into your need.
2 min
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Psalm 112 - The Righteous Will Never Be Moved
For those who trust in the Lord—those who take all of their cowering anxieties and cast them upon God—this life is like the first rays of sunshine coming over the horizon at five o’clock in the morning on a warm summer day.
2 min
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Psalm 111 - Great Are the Lord's Works
The Bible is a message of gracious redemption from start to finish. Scripture is not an advice column at the back of the newspaper; it is the front page, declaring news of what God has done.
2 min
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Psalm 110 - Sit at My Right Hand
Christ is your king, representing God to you, but he is also your priest, representing you to God. He is worthy of all our trust.
2 min
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Psalm 109 - Help Me, O Lord My God
When our crucified and risen king comes again, our accusers will be silenced once and for all. We will have peace.
5 min
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Psalm 108 - With God We Shall Do Valiantly
Vain is the salvation of man. But with God on our side, we shall triumph.
3 min
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Psalm 107 - Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So
Anyone who by God’s grace can humble himself to receive Christ’s work as a free gift will be forgiven and glorified and will enjoy the new heavens and the new earth. But the only way in is to get low. The proud—those who believe they deserve heaven—are the very ones who do not.
5 min
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Psalm 106 - Give Thanks to the Lord, for He Is ...
Jesus endured the agony of separation from the Father so that you and I can stand under the fountain of a loving God. All it takes is asking for it. Opening yourself up to it. This is who he is.
6 min
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Psalm 105 - Tell of All His Wondrous Works
God’s grace and our obedience are not equal balances on a scale. God’s grace is inexhaustible, endless. God’s grace always outpaces any grateful response on our part. It is precisely for this reason that we delight to live in holiness and reverence.
5 min
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Psalm 104 - O Lord My God, You Are Very Great
Consider your life. Have you compartmentalized the Lord of heaven? Have you set him off as one part of your life, as you have your finances, work, entertainment, and so on? Return to what you know to be true.
4 min
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Psalm 103 - Bless the Lord, O My Soul
We are sinners. We sin. But in Christ our basic identity is not sinner but cleansed, whole. And as we step out into a new day in soul-calm because of that free gift of cleansing, we find that strangely, startlingly, we begin to “do his commandments”.
3 min
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Psalm 102 - Do Not Hide Your Face from Me
The grace of God grants a significance that transcends our brief little lives. For we have been united to Christ. His future now determines our future.
4 min
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Psalm 101 - I Will Walk with Integrity
It is impossible to move through life with a primary focus on the things of this world yet still grow in integrity. But when one keeps one’s eyes focused on God—his character, his promises, his mighty rule, his heart of grace for sinners—all of life comes into accord. Things fall into place.
2 min
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Psalm 100 - His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
Your pain never outpaces his love. Your difficulty is surrounded by the deeper reality of his goodness. He proved it by sending his own Son for you. Even in the pain of life, we lift our hearts and our voices to the Lord.
2 min
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Psalm 99 - The Lord Our God Is Holy
We today are led by the psalmist to “exalt the Lord our God”, but we do it with the greater knowledge that we are priests to the world—and this is true only because God sent his own Son to become the true and final great high priest, the priest who offered the ultimate sacrifice of his own life.
2 min
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Psalm 98 - Make a Joyful Noise to the Lord
God’s global grace is reason for deep encouragement. Anyone can get in on this—as long as he does not try to barter with God but rather humbles himself enough to simply receive his love freely.
2 min
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Psalm 97 - The Lord Reigns
Is your vision of God diminishing? Do you find the ceiling of your view of his glory lowering? Confess your small-mindedness to God and perhaps also to a trusted Christian friend. Consider who he is. Glory in him again.
2 min
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Psalm 96 - Worship in the Splendor of Holiness
At the cross of Jesus Christ, God has already taken care of your own sins and need for judgment. Final judgment is now to be anticipated with eagerness, not feared with trepidation.
2 min
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Psalm 95 - Let Us Sing Songs of Praise
Are you grumbling today? Murmuring? Do you find yourself nursing wounds, wondering why God has made your life so hard? Repent. Consider that God is the one who formed the earth and made you. Above all, consider the divine “work” that you have experienced: the gracious giving of his own Son to suffer for your sins and restore you to himself.
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