Posts with the tag “chris-ford”

Daily Devotional from Psalm 88–3 “I am overwhelmed with troubles…”18 “…darkness is my closest friend.”From verse 3 all the way through verse 18, it goes on like this. Pain after pain with no relief. This psalm never provides us a “…but, God” moment, or a “this too shall pass” promise.Nope. It just keeps scraping along. Grinding, tearing, burning. As painful and desperate as this psalm is, I like t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Psalm 66–Verses 1,13, & 16“Shout for joy to God, all the earth! I will come to your temple with burnt offerings. Come and hear all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me.”God is HUGE! He made it all; the earth, the sky, the land, the sea – great things and tiny things - wonderful things and frightening things. The psalm starts there and provides a universal...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Psalm 55–Verses 5-6“Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me. Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.”King David said this during a time of extreme sadness and fear. At such times, escape is a natural first reaction. Wanting to run away is a universal human impulse. But it’s not the answer. In Psalm 55, after giving voice to thi...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Psalm 44–Verse 23“Awake Lord! Why do you sleep?”Psalm 44 is a lament. It’s a song born out of crises. At one point during the psalm, the writer asserts that they had not forgotten God or broken his covenant, and he wants to know why God would allow the current calamities. He wonders, “Why now, when we are at our greatest need, is he quiet? Haven’t we been good?” even going so...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Psalm 33–Verses 6 & 8“By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.”Have you ever seen something so powerful that it shattered all your paradigms and forced itself to be reckoned with? I never have. I’d like to say that I understand the Fa...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Psalm 22–Verses 1“My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.”In the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Jesus cried out from the cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” He knew that those present would recognize the words he spoke. Jesus was quoting King David, who wrote these words roughly a thousand years earlier from...  Read More