MAY 23, 2024 Psalm 42:1-2 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. As we begin to look at this psalm, which incidentally is the first in Book Two of the Psalms, it is important to point out that it […]
MAY 22, 2024 Psalm 41:10-11 O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. By this I know that You are well pleased with me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. At first glance, it seems as if David prayed that God would raise him up from his […]
MAY 21, 2024 Psalm 41:9 My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Before moving on to other verses and other issues, there is one other concept embedded within David’s words that is important to address. As we’ve discussed, it is inevitable that believers will be attacked, […]
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 […]