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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 31:1-14
"In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust" – such is now the firm declaration of the faithful (v. 1). Then in v. 6, "But I trust in the LORD". And again at the end of our reading, "I trusted in thee". In the midst of the storm unleashed by men, he anchors himself to this certainty. His refuge he has no longer found in his own mountain (Psalms 30:7), but in the LORD, his unshakeable Rock (v. 3). "Be thou my strong rock", he says in v. 2, but in v. 3, "Thou art my rock". Nothing will ever be able to overturn a faith established on such a foundation (Matthew 7:25). Dear friend, have you built on this Rock?
But there is one moment in life more than any other when this trust is necessary. It is the last moment, when everything must be left behind so as to pass through death. In this journey there is nothing on which the soul can lean except the God in whom, now and for ever, we have put our trust (Proverbs 14:32). Think of our matchless Example: at the moment of His death, Christ expresses this absolute confidence by His last word on the cross, of which v. 5 reminds us: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit" (Luke 23:46; see also Psalms 31:15).
