Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and billows have gone over me. The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me—a prayer to the God of my life. (Psalm 42:7-8) I've heard many...

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, “Where is your God?” When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise,...

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. (Psalm 42:1-2) If we were to boil the entirety of Scripture down to a single concept, in my view it would be this: God has always wanted a family to...

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. (Psalm 42:1-2) 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 was...

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. (Psalm 41:10-11) At first glance, it seems as if David prayed that God would raise him up from his weakened...

My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9) 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...

My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9) 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...

My own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. (Psalm 41:9) 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 past....

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. (Psalm 41:1-2) In conjunction with previous devotions about our responsibility to care for the less...

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. (Psalm 41:1-2) As was discussed in the previous devotion, the Creator is sensitive to the needs of...

I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer. Do not delay, O my God. (Psalm 40:17) The Bible clearly establishes the fact that, in this world, there will always be poor people. In fact it is written, “The poor will never cease...

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. (Psalm 40:11-12) In the previous devotion, David was very adamant about his outspokenness in regard to his...