Stay ConnectedJoin 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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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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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