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 150 - Let Everything Praise the Lord
The God of the Psalms—the God who meets the desperate, the God who hears the distraught—took on flesh and blood. He came for us. He came for you. This is who he is. Praise the Lord.
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Psalm 149 - Sing to the Lord a New Song
The arresting reminder of this psalm is of how low God’s people have been and often are, combined with how high a role God has destined for them.
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Psalm 148 - Praise the Name of the Lord
The world in which we live is filled with inexhaustible detail and glory and beauty and diversity. Who would think that the same Being could have thought up the lion and the flamingo? The snowflake and the sun?
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Psalm 147 - He Heals the Brokenhearted
The world runs after strength, slickness, outward appearance, impressiveness. God runs to the brokenhearted.
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Psalm 146 - Put Not Your Trust in Princes
Are you in distress? Are you overwhelmed? Marinate your heart in the power and love of the Savior.
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Psalm 145 - Great Is the Lord
The ministry of Jesus on behalf of sinners and sufferers means you are safe. In Christ, you cannot lose. Even your pain will ultimately be transformed into your own glory and triumph.
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Psalm 144 - My Rock and My Fortress
All it takes for God to be our fortress is for us to let him be so. To trust him. To turn, once more, to him. To humble ourselves and let him deliver us.
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Psalm 143 - My Soul Thirsts for You
In Christ, we are righteous with a status earned and given to us irrespective of what we bring to the table. All we need to offer is our need.
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Psalm 142 - You Are My Refuge
Go to God through the mediator, Jesus, who knows your anguish and has known even deeper anguish himself.
2 min
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Psalm 141 - Give Ear to My Voice
Liberated by the gospel of grace, we are free to look to God in our present interpersonal strife, even when we know ourselves to be wronged.
2 min
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Psalm 140 - Deliver Me, O Lord, from Evil Men
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 139 - Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart
If you are in Christ, the deepest reality of your existence is that God knows you. He knows every nook and cranny of your heart. He knows every failure, every fear. He understands you. He does not merely know about you. He knows you.
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Psalm 138 - Give Thanks to the Lord
Where is God’s glory seen? In his greatness, to be sure: his omnipotence, his infinitude, his eternality. Even more, however, the glory of God is seen in his goodness in light of that greatness. In all his immensity, he delights to shower his wayward creatures with grace upon grace.
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Psalm 137 - How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?
The Bible is a real book about a real God who sent a real Son to rescue real sinners from real evil. It is not a fairy book. The Bible is a book you can trust, for it reveals to us a God we can trust.
3 min
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Psalm 136 - His Steadfast Love Endures Forever
“His love endures forever.” Beyond our failures. Beyond our resentments. Beyond our disgust with ourselves. Beyond the love of any friend.
4 min
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Psalm 135 - Your Name, O Lord, Endures Forever
Those who yield to and trust in Jesus Christ, God’s perfect image, begin to take on his characteristics, like gentleness, love, and justice. We become truly human.
3 min
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Psalm 134 - Come, Bless the Lord
To bless the Lord is to lift one’s eyes to heaven, to look to God, to celebrate who he is, to count on him for all things, to acknowledge life as a gift from him. It is to thank him. At a base level, it is to notice him. To see him, and to rejoice in him while doing so.
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Psalm 133 - When Brothers Dwell in Unity
How do we find such unity? The whole Bible gives us the answer, hinted at in this psalm: unity comes where “the Lord has commanded the blessing”.
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Psalm 132 - The Lord Has Chosen Zion
Who rules over your life? Who will determine the final state of the world? Who gets the last say? Jesus Christ—not your boss, not your parents, not your political leadership. Trust him, and be at peace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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