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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 27:1-14
All the believer’s confidence in the One who is his light, his salvation, the strength of his life, shines in this psalm (v. 1; cf. Psalms 18:27-29). The Epistle to the Ephesians confirms it: the Lord is at the same time the Christian’s light and his strength (Ephesians 5:14; Ephesians 6:10). Who realised this confidence towards God like the Lord Jesus? In the same way that Psalms 22:1-31 is the psalm of the cross, this psalm might be called "the psalm of Gethsemane". V. 2 brings to mind in a striking manner that crowd, armed with swords and staves, which came forward under Judas’s direction to seize the Lord of glory. At His word, "I am he", they go backward and fall to the ground (John 18:6).
It is in the house of the Lord that the psalmist seeks refuge (vv. 3-5; cf. 2 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 19:14), beautiful picture of communion, "one thing" that we have to ask for and to seek after above all else. This communion, however, is not only for the hour of trial, but for "all the days of my life". Such communion is necessary for discerning the beauty of the Lord, and for making progress in our knowledge of Him.
The last verse comes, like an answer from above, to quieten all the believer’s alarms: "Wait, I say, on the LORD".
