Psalms 23:1. The LORD is my Shepherd; -
What a precious title the psalmist used in speaking of his God! It is right to call the Lord a Shepherd. "The Shepherd of Israel" is a very blessed and true title for him, but "my Shepherd" is best of all. I wish beloved, that each of you would truthfully say, with David, "’The Lord is my Shepherd.’ He owns me; and as I am his property, he will preserve me, protect me, provide for me, guide me, and be everything to my weakness, and folly, and necessity, that a shepherd is to a sheep." "The Lord is my Shepherd;"-
Psalms 23:1. I shall not want.
Not only do I not want at the present moment, but I never shall want. I may sometimes foolishly fancy that I shall come to want; but I never shall as long as God provides for me. How could such a Shepherd as he is almighty and all-sufficient, ever suffer one of his sheep to lack any good thing? No, ‘I shall not want.’ All the world beside may want, but I shall not while Jehovah is my Provider. Famine may be sore in the land, there may be neither dew nor rain, and even the brook Cherith may at last be dried up, but since Jehovah is my Shepherd, ‘I shall not want.’ As a guarantee of his care of us in the future, we turn to our experience in the past and the present What is our experience of our great Shepherd even now?
Psalms 23:1. The LORD is my Shepherd; -
What a precious title the psalmist used in speaking of his God! It is right to call the Lord a Shepherd. "The Shepherd of Israel" is a very blessed and true title for him, but "my Shepherd" is best of all. I wish beloved, that each of you would truthfully say, with David, "’The Lord is my Shepherd.’ He owns me; and as I am his property, he will preserve me, protect me, provide for me, guide me, and be everything to my weakness, and folly, and necessity, that a shepherd is to a sheep." "The Lord is my Shepherd;"-
Psalms 23:1. I shall not want.
Not only do I not want at the present moment, but I never shall want. I may sometimes foolishly fancy that I shall come to want; but I never shall as long as God provides for me. How could such a Shepherd as he is almighty and all-sufficient, ever suffer one of his sheep to lack any good thing? No, ‘I shall not want.’ All the world beside may want, but I shall not while Jehovah is my Provider. Famine may be sore in the land, there may be neither dew nor rain, and even the brook Cherith may at last be dried up, but since Jehovah is my Shepherd, ‘I shall not want.’ As a guarantee of his care of us in the future, we turn to our experience in the past and the present What is our experience of our great Shepherd even now?