The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms

by Timothy J. Keller

YOU WILL RESTORE MY LIFE. In the middle of this psalm is a phrase that goes by quickly but that should make us stop and think: “Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again” (verse 20). The psalmist trusts God’s sovereign wisdom and love, even when he has sent bitter trouble into his life. He knows that in the end everything that happens is for the ultimate purpose of restoring our life—by deepening the love, wisdom, and joy of our spiritual life and by eventually resurrecting our bodies in the new world, wiped clean of all death and darkness (Romans 8:18–25). Indeed, then, “everything is needful that he sends; nothing can be needful that he withholds.”