Psalm 23
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures
He leads me beside the still waters
He restores my soul
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
For His name sake
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil
For you are with me
Your rod and your staff they comfort me
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies
You anoint my head with oil
My cup overflows
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever
Many verses have become so common we don’t read them anymore. This is one of them. If we understood this passage of scripture we would handle our lives differently. How we handle other people’s lives would also be different. We wouldn’t handle them, we would let God handle them. Difficult to do!
We say
If you will stop doing what your doing
I will lack nothing
On and on….we do not really believe what this passage says
We can quote it and sing all about it
But what comes out of our mouth proves we don’t believe it
We are praying for all of us, may we get the first verse of this passage right!