EVER IN THY SIGHT

31 Devotions on the Psalms

ABRAHAM KUYPER

Translated by James A. De Jong

2020

Ever in Thy Sight: 31 Devotions on the Psalms

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Psalm

1:1 Definitely Blessed

7:11 A God Who Shows His Wrath Every Day

22:1 Eli, Eli, Lamma Sabachthani!

22:6 A Worm and Not a Man

22:14 I Am Poured Out like Water

22:29 Those Who Cannot Keep Their Souls Alive

23:1 I Shall Not Want

24:9–10 Be Lifted Up, You Everlasting Doors

25:7 The Sins of My Youth

25:12 Who Is the Man Who Fears the Lord?

32:11 Upright in Heart

41:3 You Completely Transform His Illness

41:12 You Set Me before Your Face Forever

51:10 Renew a Steadfast Spirit in My Inmost Parts!

51:17 Brokenhearted

52:8 Like a Green Olive Tree in God’s House

58:4 Like a Deaf Viper

62:9 Important People Are a Lie!

68:18 Even the Rebellious Live in Your Presence

73:15 Disloyal to the Generations of Your Children

85:9 So That Glory May Dwell in Our Land

86:11–12 Unify My Heart

90:10 Trouble and Sorrow

92:10 Anointed with New Oil

97:11 Light Is Sown for the Righteous

107:12 The Heart Humbled by Hard Labor

119:176 Like a Lost Sheep

121:4–5 The Lord Is Your Keeper!

130:4 Forgiveness and the Fear of the Lord

131:2 Like a Weaned Child

138:8 Do Not Neglect the Work of Your Hands

INTRODUCTION

Leaders shape a vision that inspires a following. An inspired following effects change—hopefully, change that is positive and blesses others.

But how does a major leader for good sustain their vision? Clarify it? Expand it? Deepen it? How do they avoid becoming larger than the vision? Preoccupied with self more than with the cause? Compromising their integrity? Disappointing and shattering their following?

The Christian landscape is littered with examples of leaders who began well but went rogue. This, by God’s grace, did not happen with Abraham Kuyper. Why not?

You are holding the answer in your hands. He maintained a lifelong, intimate walk with the Lord—a walk reflected in his written meditations, a selection of which are published here.

Abraham Kuyper was born in 1837, the son of a Reformed pastor in the state church of the Netherlands. He distinguished himself as a brilliant student at the University of Leiden who was accorded high praise for his ...