“Yahweh is my shepherd…” (Psalm 23)
I wonder when these words
first came to David. When did he realize that Yahweh, the covenant God of
Israel, cared for him as he, David, cared for his flock?
Did David ponder the depth of
his own care for his father’s sheep? David not only cared for his father’s
flock as a whole, but he cared for the particular sheep in the flock, to the
point of risking his life to save them from wild beasts (1 Samuel 17:34-35).
When a lion or bear grabbed a sheep and ran with it David didn’t count it as
shrinkage, as the cost of doing business; rather he went after the predator and
saved the sheep.
One day it dawned on David
that Yahweh, the Maker of heaven and earth, was not just “out there”, but that
He knew David and loved David and cared for David – that He, Almighty God, was
also a shepherd – that He was David’s shepherd.
Has it dawned on us that our
heavenly Father is also our shepherd? Do we see our Lord Jesus, our Great
Shepherd, laying down us life for us? Caring for us? Loving us?
Have the words of David become
our words? Can we write, “The LORD is my shepherd”?
Why not take a pen and paper
and write them right now?
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