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 52 - The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To trust God means to live your life as if God actually exists and is who he says he is. It is to conduct your existence in such a way that what you say that you believe about God aligns with how you use words, money, your body, and other people. It is to leave your final welfare in God’s hands rather than your own.
2 min
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Psalm 51 - Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
Amid your dirtiness, you are free to breathe again. In Christ, you are rinsed clean—invincibly, permanently, irreversibly.
4 min
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Psalm 50 - God Himself Is Judge
God wants us to honor him simply by crying out for help: “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” We glorify God by being delivered by him—which reminds us of the deepest reason for the sacrificial system.
4 min
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Psalm 49 - Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
Jesus Christ left the beauty of heaven to walk through the brokenness of this fallen world. And he went willingly to a Roman cross to ransom sinners from the clutches of death and hell and condemnation. The price he paid—his own dear life—is costly enough to win back the lives of all of those who repent and trust in him.
4 min
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Psalm 48 - Zion, the City of Our God
Do you live in a city? A town? A village? God does not simply dwell among you, in some special building. He dwells in you. He could not be closer.
3 min
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Psalm 47 - God Is King over All the Earth
One day, through the salvation wrought in Jesus Christ, the true and final descendant of Abraham, God will welcome into the new heavens and the new earth a beautiful international diversity of ethnicities.
2 min
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Psalm 46 - God Is Our Fortress
What worries your heart as you lie awake in bed? God says: I, not any circumstantial solution, am your refuge amid your adversities. I am a very present help in trouble. I am God. Be still.
2 min
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Psalm 45 - Your Throne, O God, Is Forever
Jesus is the ideal king. Even today, when most nations are not under the rule of a pure monarchy, this is the king, the ruler, every human heart longs for. A king of justice and of virtue, of might and of beauty.
3 min
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Psalm 44 - Come to Our Help
Fallen men and women stand in need of a salvation that comes wholly from outside of them. They contribute nothing but their need.When God’s people stand in need of fresh deliverance, therefore, this is all they can plead: “Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!
4 min
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Psalm 43 - Send Out Your Light and Your Truth
The Hebrew word for “salvation” here reads literally “the salvation of my face.” God does not save me in ethereal abstraction. He draws near to me, so near that the Bible describes it in terms of saving my very face.
2 min
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Psalm 42 - Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
The tidal wave of true separation from the Father washed over Another so that it need never wash over us.
4 min
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Psalm 41 - O Lord, Be Gracious to Me
David knew only in shadows what we know in full light: even though he would one day die and be buried in the ground, he will indeed be raised up by the mercy of God.
3 min
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Psalm 40 - My Help and My Deliverer
The greater Son of David came into this world and never faltered from doing the will of God. He then suffered what our sin deserves and rose triumphant from the grave.
4 min
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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