MAY 20, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. As with many of David’s psalms, not only are they expressions of his heart and the emotions evoked by his circumstances, they are also prophetic, specifically in regard to the Messiah. As David suffered, […]
MAY 19, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. It is one thing to be assailed by an enemy — it is to be expected — but it is another kind of hurt to be betrayed by someone you have trusted in times […]
MAY 18, 2024 Psalm 41:1-2 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth. In conjunction with previous devotions about our responsibility to care for the less fortunate, let us look at another aspect of how we can consider […]
MAY 17, 2024 Psalm 41:1-2 Blessed is he who considers the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth. As was discussed in the previous devotion, the Creator is sensitive to the needs of the poor and the afflicted — He hears their prayers […]
MAY 15, 2024 Psalm 40:11-12 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord; let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me. In the previous devotion, David was very adamant about his outspokenness in regard to his faith in the Lord. He said, “I have not concealed Your […]
MAY 14, 2024 Psalm 40:9-10 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the […]
MAY 13, 2024 Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” […]
MAY 12, 2024 Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. Then I said, “Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.” […]
MAY 11, 2024 Psalm 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Let us begin today’s thoughts by considering something that should be obvious: as far as God is […]
MAY 10, 2024 Psalm 40:2-3 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth— praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the Lord. I have long believed that […]
MAY 9, 2024 Psalm 40:1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me, and heard my cry. Considering the anguish articulated in the previous psalm, this prayer composed by David strikes a much different tone — one of joy and appreciation for the relief and deliverance God granted him. In the previous psalm he […]
MAY 8, 2024 Psalm 39:4-5 Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. All of us have been created by God for a specific purpose; fulfilling […]
