The Morning Devotional: Psalm 75
Season 11 | Edition 51
June 9, 2026
SUMMARY: This sermon centers on Psalm 75 as a profound meditation on divine sovereignty, gratitude, and the ultimate justice of God. It opens with a call to thanksgiving rooted in God’s wondrous deeds, emphasizing that gratitude is a vital antidote to discontent and complaint. The message unfolds with a powerful declaration of God’s appointed judgment, affirming that He alone upholds creation, subdues pride, and exalts or humbles individuals according to His righteous will. The sermon highlights the cup of God’s wrath in verse 8 as fulfilled in Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice, where Jesus bore the full weight of divine judgment on the cross. Ultimately, the psalm’s purpose is to inspire perpetual praise and confidence in God’s justice, reminding believers that they are protected, guided, and spared from judgment through Christ’s atonement, making thanksgiving both a response and a foundation for faith.
We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, for your name is near.
We recount your wondrous deeds.
2 “At the set time that I appoint
I will judge with equity.
3 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
4 I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;
5 do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with haughty neck.’”
6 For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,
7 but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.
8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup
with foaming wine, well mixed,
and he pours out from it,
and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain it down to the dregs.
9 But I will declare it forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
(Psalm 75:1-10, ESV)