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 39 - What Is the Measure of My Days?
For God is the one hope of this life who will not, in the end, let us down.
3 min
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Psalm 38 - Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord
God’s answer for those who squander his grace through folly is: more grace. In Jesus, this unending fountain of inexhaustible grace has been secured.
3 min
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Psalm 37 - He Will Not Forsake His Saints
The core message of this psalm is that true fullness of life comes not as we expect. It is found not in manipulating our circumstances or controlling those around us or violently silencing those who threaten our ambitions but in quietly looking to God and letting him sort out our lives.
6 min
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Psalm 36 - How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
With this psalm David brings us with him into a renewed, settled confidence that it is the Lord who will triumph in our lives. He will care for us. He will get the last word.
3 min
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Psalm 35 - Great Is the Lord
David is under assault, and once more he turns to God for deliverance. His own human resources are no match for the adversity he is facing—he must appeal to the only one who has the strength to protect him and overcome his adversaries.
5 min
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Psalm 34 - Taste and See That the Lord Is Good
To look to the Lord and be radiant as a result is to walk through life in happy defiance of any circumstantial adversity sending your emotional life into meltdown. You have God. You are safe. You have everything.
4 min
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Psalm 33 - The Steadfast Love of the Lord
Over all the madness and chaos of this world, all the political conflicts and military endeavors and voting booths and family dysfunctions and physical illnesses and financial meltdowns—God reigns.
3 min
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Psalm 32 - Blessed Are the Forgiven
In the fullness of time God sent his own Son to be our sacrificial Lamb. In him we receive forgiveness because the punishment we deserved was poured out on him.
3 min
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Psalm 31 - Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit
What does it mean to “take refuge” in God, as David says numerous times in this psalm? What does it mean that God is our “fortress”?
4 min
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Psalm 30 - Joy Comes with the Morning
Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, God draws near to sinners and enjoys fellowship with us once more. Let us praise him.
3 min
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Psalm 29 - Ascribe to the Lord Glory
Has the awe-inspiring greatness of God displayed in unspeakable majesty and strength been pressed into your heart? If not, this psalm helps to do so.
2 min
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Psalm 28 - The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield
David does not expend his energies engaging his enemies or defending himself or pursuing any other humanly contrived strategy. He receives the horizontal affliction but goes to a vertical solution.
2 min
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Psalm 27 - The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
If the Lord is your light and salvation, of whom will you be afraid?
4 min
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Psalm 25 - Teach Me Your Paths
When life overwhelms us, when the bottom is falling out, this is where Scripture takes us: to God. We do not achieve internal calm by securing external calm. We find internal calm by looking to God.
3 min
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Psalm 26 - I Will Bless the Lord
David knows that he can count on the Lord to deliver him because this is who God has always been for his people.
3 min
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Psalm 24 - The King of Glory
For, in the fullness of time, the high and lofty God came near to his people, tangibly near, in flesh and blood.
2 min
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Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd
We know that Jesus Christ walked through the ultimate valley of the shadow of death, the darkness of condemnation and hell—a fate that should have landed on us. The result is that in our temporary dark valleys we can know that despite our sin and failure, God will bring us, in full moral integrity, to be with him forever.
2 min
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Psalm 22 - Why Have You Forsaken Me?
David assumes God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in light of the promises made to David in Scripture, David ought to have known that God would never have finally forsaken him.
5 min
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Psalm 21 - The King Rejoices in the Lord’s Stre...
David rejoices in God’s goodness to him as the anointed king. But his own rule would quickly fade from history. A greater King, however, would one day come. Unlike David’s temporary “crown of fine gold”, this King’s reign would last forever.
3 min
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Psalm 20 - Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God
God alone is able to bear the weight of our deepest trust. And God alone will never let us down when we place the full weight of our trust on him. In Christ he proved it.
2 min
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Psalm 19 - The Law of the Lord Is Perfect
The Word of God not only reveals who God is; it also reveals who we are, in all our sin and need. The lofty call of Scripture is worthy of all pursuit, yet frustratingly beyond our reach in light of our weakness and inadequacy.
3 min
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Psalm 18 - The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress
We can trust God, no matter how dire the circumstance. For in the gospel the direst of circumstances—our deserved condemnation and an eternity in hell—have already been emptied of their threat and power.
7 min
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Psalm 17 - In the Shadow of Your Wings
Whatever unfolds in this life, David knows that one day he will be at rest in the presence of the Lord.
3 min
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Psalm 16 - You Will Not Abandon My Soul
The ringing note on which the psalm ends has been deeply calming encouragement to saints down through the ages. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore”. Nothing else is needed.
2 min
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Psalm 15 - Who Shall Dwell on Your Holy Hill?
To dwell on God’s holy mountain means to pass into and abide in the temple. But Jesus did not come simply to the temple; he came as the temple.
2 min