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

God is never caught by surprise amid global upheaval and strife. He is never perplexed or left groping for solutions. He reigns. And one day, all that is done in this stormy world will be brought into the light and into judgment.

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

David brings us to praise God for the remarkable care he has entrusted to us. He is the God of the heavens, having placed the stars in their orbits, and yet he has entrusted to humanity the care of the earth.

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

 David is not putting on blinders to his own sinfulness; rather, he is asking for truth and objective honesty to be pursued.

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

When we are brought into the dark valleys of life as we journey through this fallen world, we have, and we need, one thing: God. And we can know that we have the Lord with us, moment by moment, because he sent his own Son to walk through this world’s sorrows.

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

Content to leave the punishment of all evil in God’s hands, David directs his heart elsewhere. He does not let thoughts of evildoers fester in his mind but finally rests in God, his refuge. 

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

In the darkness of this moment, David makes up his mind: he will trust in the Lord. The result? A greater joy than any material prosperity could ever provide; a peace that supplies contented sleep.

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

What strengthens David is not strength mustered up from within. What stabilizes him is not self-generated optimism. David knows that earthly help is worthless when the tidal waves of life threaten to overwhelm and drown us. Instead he looks to God.

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

Believers today are the heirs of this psalm, and its promises come to rest on the worldwide church and its faith in the true and final Davidic heir, Jesus.

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

Beneath the never-ending list of “to do’s” clamoring for our attention lies the fundamental choice to receive instruction and influence either from God or from fools. Will we listen to the voice of life or to the voices of death?

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