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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 20:1-9
God has given the world more than the witnesses mentioned in Psalms 19:1-14 : a living Witness, Jesus Christ. Psalms 16:3 showed us the perfect Man finding all His delight in believers, the "saints" and the "excellent" in the earth. Conversely, we see Christ in Psalms 20:1-9 to be the centre of the interest and affections of His own. To the One who was to proclaim on the cross, "I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not" (Psalms 22:2) they say, "The LORD hear thee! . . . the LORD fulfil all thy petitions" (vv. 1, 5). Then the certainty of faith, "He will hear him . . ." (v. 6), to which the cry of deliverance from Psalms 22:21 corresponds, "Thou hast heard me . . .". Only then do the faithful intercede for themselves, "Let the king hear us" (v. 9). Oh that we too might better realise what abandonment and then deliverance meant to the Lord Jesus, and what their glorious results are for us!
"Some trust in chariots and, some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God." (v. 7). Modern man counts more than ever on his powerful and rapid means of travel, as on many other things. But the Christian’s glory is to belong to Christ and to bear His beautiful Name (James 2:7).
