In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund

Jesus has washed away any reason for God to be angry with us in a punishing kind of way. Everything in your life, good and pain, comfortable and painful, is from the hand of a loving Father.

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

In him you are restored to your true self. Your sins are forgiven. You are promised an eternity in the new earth. Read this psalm and praise God for his goodness to Israel—and to you.

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

In the Old Testament, his way was through the sea. In the New Testament, his way is through the cross. The gracious provision of God confounds us even as it delivers us.

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

The ferocious wrath of God landed on Christ, not us. As a result, God can take up residence within us without threatening his holiness or justice.

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

God judged his own righteous Son in place of us unrighteous rebels, so that any who turns to take refuge in him gets the future that Jesus deserves. This, above all else, is reason to give thanks to God for his wondrous deeds.

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

In the destruction of Jesus, your own destruction is assured to be behind you instead of in front of you. When you look at the cross, you see your punishment being carried out, so that before you is only peace with God and an eternity with him.

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

Your greatest enjoyment—God—can never be taken away from you. In heaven, God is all you want and need. On earth, God is all you want and need. In death or in life, in sickness or in health, even as your body wastes away toward the grave, God is all you want and need.

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

Only one king ever lived up to this lofty prayer. In the Lord Jesus, we see the supreme promises of God come to climactic realization.

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

Adversity is not intended to diminish our hope in God. Adversity is intended to heighten our hope in him. We are brought to remember that God is all we have, and that he is enough.

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

Consider your own life. On what do you rely, moment by moment? True communion with God is the lifelong process of growing more and more deeply in dependence upon God: leaning on him, trusting in him, counting on him.

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