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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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.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
When life overwhelms us, when the bottom is falling out, this is where Scripture takes us: to God. We do not achieve internal calm by securing external calm. We find internal calm by looking to God.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
We know that Jesus Christ walked through the ultimate valley of the shadow of death, the darkness of condemnation and hell—a fate that should have landed on us. The result is that in our temporary dark valleys we can know that despite our sin and failure, God will bring us, in full moral integrity, to be with him forever.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
David assumes God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in light of the promises made to David in Scripture, David ought to have known that God would never have finally forsaken him.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
David rejoices in God’s goodness to him as the anointed king. But his own rule would quickly fade from history. A greater King, however, would one day come. Unlike David’s temporary “crown of fine gold”, this King’s reign would last forever.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
God alone is able to bear the weight of our deepest trust. And God alone will never let us down when we place the full weight of our trust on him. In Christ he proved it.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
The Word of God not only reveals who God is; it also reveals who we are, in all our sin and need. The lofty call of Scripture is worthy of all pursuit, yet frustratingly beyond our reach in light of our weakness and inadequacy.
Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the Psalms.
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