Verse
Psalm 75:7 (ESV) — “But it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.”
Meditation
Psalm 75 speaks to a world tempted by comparison, control, and self-promotion. The psalmist cuts through these illusions with a simple confession: it is God who exalts and God who humbles. Outcomes are not finally decided by effort, status, or timing, but by the Lord’s righteous judgment. Morning often invites us to measure ourselves—against yesterday, against others, against expectations. This verse calls us away from that restless accounting. God governs with justice and wisdom that surpass human sight. To trust this is to be freed from envy and fear alike. We are not asked to secure our own elevation, only to walk faithfully where God has placed us. When we begin the day resting in God’s rule, ambition gives way to humility, and anxiety yields to peace.
New Testament Verse
Luke 14:11 (ESV) — “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Old Testament Verse
1 Samuel 2:7 (ESV) — “The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.”
Collect
O Lord, who alone lifts up and brings low, deliver us from pride and from fear. Teach us to trust Your righteous rule and to walk humbly in the place You assign us, that our lives may rest securely in Your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hymn Verse
Commit whatever grieves thee
Into the gracious hands
Of Him who never leaves thee,
Who heav’n and earth commands.
(TLH 524, verse 2)
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