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

In your time of distress, you can pray this Psalm and know with confidence that God will somehow answer and deliver you, because Jesus prayed for deliverance but faced the cross nevertheless.

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

What difference does it make that God is both mighty and merciful, both powerful and gentle? All the difference in the world. It means he is able to deliver us from all our difficulties and sins, and it means he enjoys delivering us.

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

This is who God is. He is not a parochial, narrow-minded God. His welcome to sinners is wide. He asks only for our penitent faith, our trusting contrition—all he asks is that we humble ourselves enough to know of our need for his saving mercy.

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

Are you in a valley now? Do you feel now that you are fighting your way “through fire and through water"? Take comfort in this Psalm. Through tears he brings us “to a place of abundance.” 

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

God cares for you. He does not care about our souls alone, although that is the most important thing about us. He cares also about our physical nourishment.Yet why did he give us food, ultimately? Not only for our enjoyment but more deeply to tell us who he is—our true sustenance, our deepest nourishment. 

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

Our words reveal what is truly happening in our hearts, far better than any X-ray.When our immediate verbal response is to respond to evil with evil, we demonstrate that we are not in tune with the gospel.

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

The heart of Christianity is not a set of doctrines to believe, even though sound doctrine is vital. Nor is the heart of Christianity an activity to pursue, even though the Christian faith is necessarily active. The heart of Christianity is to live upon God. You were made for God.

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

Pain has a special way of exposing where our trust truly lies. But pain also brings us into our only secure trust: the Lord himself.

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

How do you handle distress — emotional, psychological, physical, financial? What is your heart-impulse when you feel swamped by adversity? Cry out to the Lord. He will lead you to a place of safety. 

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

Ultimately, through Jesus Christ, God fulfills his promises to Abraham, and the New Testament indicates that God’s way of continuing to fulfill his land promises is through faithful Christian witness, extending not just to the Promised Land of Israel but to the end of the earth.

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

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