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 131 - I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul
What in your life is pulling you away from saying, “I have calmed and quieted my soul”? Repent. Be restored. Return to the Lord. Hope in him once more.
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Psalm 130 - My Soul Waits for the Lord
Your sins can darken your awareness of God’s love, but they cannot darken the reality of that love. God does not redeem his people from some of their iniquities; rather, “he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities”.
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Psalm 129 - They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth
If you are in Christ—if you are one of those on whom the blessing of the Lord rests—then, like your Savior before you, your pains will one day be transformed into glory, turned inside out into marks of beauty.
2 min
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Psalm 128 - Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears the Lord
What does it mean to “fear the Lord”? To fear the Lord means to live as if God exists and is who he says he is.
2 min
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Psalm 127 - Unless the Lord Builds the House
Build into your life self-conscious, moment-by-moment mindfulness of the Lord. Appeal to him constantly. Invite him into your thoughts and dreams and plans.
2 min
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Psalm 126 - Restore Our Fortunes, O Lord
Life in Christ is a celebration—not shallow merriment but a deep, pain-acknowledging celebration. For the best is yet to come.
2 min
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Psalm 125 - The Lord Surrounds His People
Whatever assault you feel yourself to be under today as you walk with Christ, the answer is not to respond to insults with insults, nor to hope ultimately in political or economic leadership, but to rely on the Lord.
2 min
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Psalm 124 - Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord
The Father sent his own Son so that amid all our ups and downs in life, we are guaranteed a steady companion who loves us and is for us. He is on our side. “Our help is in the name of the Lord”.
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Psalm 123 - Our Eyes Look to the Lord Our God
The mercy of the Lord is yours for the taking. Draw near to him, and he will draw near to you. In the embrace of God is a comfort and consolation no human scorning can threaten.
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Psalm 122 - Let Us Go to the House of the Lord
In Jesus, we become our true selves. We are given back our humanity. We taste Eden. And in the new earth, we will enjoy unhindered fellowship with God once more, not in a limited locale but unlimited, not for a limited time but for eternity.
2 min
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Psalm 121 - My Help Comes from the Lord
What does it mean to be part of the people of God? Among a hundred other things, it means that the God who created the universe never ceases to watch over and actively protect you.
1 min
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Psalm 120 - Deliver Me, O Lord
Like our Savior, who left his true home in heaven to come to earth and sojourn among us, we sojourn among a foreign land that will one day be returned fully and openly to its rightful ruler. Until then, we trust in the Lord and, led by the psalmist, pray for deliverance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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