The Lord Is My Shepherd
I was reading the 23rd Psalm this morning. It’s so familiar, but I got stuck on the first verse: “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want.” I began to think about how the Creator of the universe – my Maker, the Person who formed me – is my Shepherd. He views me as part of His flock. He cares for me, He protects me, He directs me, He is there when I sleep, and He stays with me because He is my Shepherd.
Because He is my Shepherd, the second phrase seems to fit: “I shall not want.” Shepherds take care of their sheep. They don’t abandon them, they don’t let them starve, and they don’t let them be hurt.
We don’t want if God truly is our Shepherd. We don’t desire to have more and more things, and we rest with confidence that God will take care of us if we can honestly and authentically say, “The Lord is my Shepherd.”
In this economy, in this time when we are stretched and are having to make some changes, we as a mission – we as a nation, as a nation of Christ-followers – need to say, “The Lord is my Shepherd, and therefore I will rest in Him. I will not want.”
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