Hi, I'm Shelby Abbott, and this is Psalms for Christmas Time, a podcast mini-series from

Family Life with pastor and author, Dane Orland.

Dane is written a book in the Lord I Take Refuge, 150 daily devotions through the Psalms.

And all this month, with a gift of any amount, not only will your donation be matched,

we'll send you a copy of the book to dive deeper into the Psalms and stir your affections

for Jesus Christ.

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Inevitably during this time when Christmas rolls around, the end of the day comes,

everybody goes to sleep on Christmas night.

They start to look forward to already the next thing, which is often New Year's.

And so New Year's comes with a lot of traditions in and of itself.

And one of those things happens to be resolutions, or they start thinking about new beginnings.

They start thinking about, what do I want to do differently this year that I'm just not pleased with from this last year?

And we get a picture of that real human experience of what we're longing for in the Psalms as well.

And so today we're going to look at Psalm 121 with Pastor and author, Dana Orland.

Dana, we're thinking about these things.

We're in this Christmas season and New Year's is just around the corner.

Many people have a tendency to do that to say, how can I turn over a new leaf?

What do we learn from this Psalm specifically in Psalm 121 that we can apply to our lives?

Well, we learn who God is all over again.

And receive this in the Spirit in which I mean, we can become a Christian all over again.

We read this Psalm and take fresh refuge in God.

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