Continual Burnt Offering: Daily Meditations, March 29 (23:1)
“The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want” —Ps. 23:1.
SOMEONE has said, “Psalms 23 is the best loved of all the Psalms and it is the one least believed!” Do we really believe it? We all love it; do we not? Its beautiful imagery, its wonderful idyllic poetry, its expressions of confidence in Jehovah, our Great Shepherd, appeal to every discriminating and Spirit-taught mind. But do we know the blessedness of resting upon its implied promises? When out of employment, laid aside by illness, or facing bereavement, are we able to say from the heart, “The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want?” Not want what? Another psalm answers, “They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing” (Psa. 34:10). And again, “There is no want to them that fear Him” (Psa. 34:9). Why, then, should the child of God ever be troubled and distressed by thoughts of future ill? God is over all and He is undertaking for us.
Since the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want: