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April 22, 2024
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Apr '24
This is Pastor Andy and I am honored to be doing our Advent devotions this week. I’d like to reflect on one of the most beloved and treasured psalms, Psalm 23. I have shared this psalm hundreds of times at someone’s bed in the hospital or at a funeral. This short psalm is long on comfort and consolation. But it is also very much a psalm for daily living. How blessed we are that the God of the Universe is also the shepherd who tends us, guides us, cares for us and protects us each day!
God, you are my shepherd! I have everything I need.
Is it really true that we have everything we need if God is our shepherd? There may be times where we feel our wants and our needs are not being met. The key is for us to trust in the shepherd and follow him anyway. What chance does a lone sheep have of finding his or her way home? There came a time where God’s people felt lost so he did a truly amazing thing-he sent his Son to be our shepherd on earth. He even laid down his life for the sheep, for us. You can believe the psalmist-because the Lord is our shepherd we have everything we need.