April 17, 2008

• The Lord is my Shepherd…

  Like most Americans, I am so used to a particular rendition of Psalm 23, that it just rolls off my tongue without effort and without thought:  “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”  And while such a phrase has meaning to me, I never realized that it wasn’t very meaningful to me until today when I read it in the TNIV. 

  “The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing.”

  “I lack nothing,” said the Psalmist.  Wow!  Such a declaration sent reverberations from my mind to the depths of my soul. I lack nothing?  How strange that I often feel like I lack so many things.  I don’t say it in so many words, but when I am constantly thinking, “I wish I had more money”, “I wish we had a better house”, “I wish I had more time”,  “I wish I was smarter”;  I am really saying that I lack X, Y, Z.  But with Jesus as my Shepherd, I really lack nothing.  I have everything I need and more.  How I desperately need to meditate on this verse until its truth sets my restless heart free.

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