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 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.
3 min
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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.
4 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
1 min
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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”.
2 min
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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.
3 min
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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.
1 min
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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”.
2 min
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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”.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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.
2 min
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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