Psalm Chapter 22 - To the chief Musician upon...

Psalm 83: Keep Not Thou SilenceTen nations, named one after another like the roll call of a nightmare: Edom, Ishmael, Moab, the Hagarenes, Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, Tyre, and Assur looming at the back. They have "taken crafty counsel" against God's hidden ones — against th ...  Show more

Psalm 82: The Judgment of the JudgesThere is a courtroom behind every courtroom. Asaph pulls back the curtain and shows us what he sees: God himself standing in the congregation of the mighty, presiding over a trial of the judges. The charge sheet is not abstract — it is painfull ...  Show more

❖ Today’s Bible reading is Psalm 22: www.ESV.org/Psalm22 ❖ To read along with the podcast, grab a print copy of the devotional: www.crossway.org/books/in-the-lord-i-take-refuge-hcj/ ❖ Browse other resources from Dane Ortlund: www.crossway.org/authors/dane-c-ortlund/ 

David assumes God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in light of the promises made to David in Scripture, David ought to have known that God would never have finally forsaken him. Dane Ortlund is the author of ...  Show more

David’s life gives us two parallel portrayals of what it means to be God’s anointed one: one is victorious—God’s anointed is the giant feller and the snake crusher. The other one is a suffering servant, waiting patiently in the wilderness for God’s deliverance. In today’s epis ...