Daily Devotionals

Devotional: January 23rd

Psalms 62:1-12

This beautiful psalm is not marked out as applying to any special circumstance in David’s life, as if to confirm that "at all times" (v. 8), the soul must rest peacefully upon God (here mentioned seven times) and on Him alone! Precious expressions of trust (vv. 1, 2, 5-8) but especially precious Object of my confidence: Christ, the Rock of ages on whom both my salvation and my glory rest (v. 7)! If I realise this, I can invite others to put their trust in Him (v. 8), and at the same time warn them against every deceitful help. In truth, whether they be of low or high degree in the social ladder, men puff themselves up with the wind of their vanity, and with their lying pretensions. In the divine balance they are "found wanting" (v. 9; cf. Daniel 5:27).

As Christians, let us hold firmly to what we find at the end of v. 10: "If riches increase, set not your heart upon them". Many of God’s children, faithful as long as they had only God on whom to rest (v. 1) have not been able to resist the test of prosperity (cf. Psalms 69:22). "The deceitfulness of riches" has stifled the living word and they have become unfruitful (Matthew 13:22).

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