The Lord Is My Shepherd...🐑

A Moment of Meditation 🧘🏾‍♀️ If Jehovah is to be our shepherd, then we have to begin by recognizing that we are sheep. I don't like that analogy, frankly, coz I don't like sheep. Sheep are, beyond question, the most stupid animals on the face of the earth. They are dumb and they are dirty and they are timid and defenseless and helpless. They are always getting lost, hurt and snake-bitten. Sheep are miserable creatures. Going the above, I am before God, a sheep! Oh yes! I know that I lack wisdom and strength. I'm inclined to be self-destructive. I know my tendency toward self-indulgent individualism, going my own way and doing my own thing. Isaiah said it best: "We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way" (Isaiah 53:6). That's me. I'm a sheep. And if Jesus Christ is to be my shepherd, I have to admit that I need one. Once we admit that need, we discover the truth of what David is saying. We shall not want. Glory be to God because His Son and my Lord JESUS, is my shepherd therefore I do not lack anything. He satisfies my needs. That is the place where God wants to bring us. He wants us to be independently dependent upon Him, to need Him alone. There are really only two options in life. If the Lord is my shepherd, then I shall not want; but if I am in want, then it is obvious that the Lord is not my shepherd. It is that simple. If emptiness, loneliness, despair, and frustration exist in our lives, then the Lord is not our shepherd. Or if anyone or anything else is shepherding us, we are never satisfied. If our work shepherds us, then there is frustration. If education is our shepherd, then we are constantly being disillusioned. If another person is our shepherd, we are always disappointed, and ultimately we are left empty. If drug abuse is our shepherd, then we are wasted. But if the Lord is our shepherd, David says, we shall not want! Hallelujah!