Title: Getting to Know the Shepherd (1)
Series: Psalm 23
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Psalm 23
Uneasiness would be a good word to describe how many people feel today. No one knows what each day will bring, and we are less and less confident that it will bring anything good. The world is on fire and it those in charge are running toward the fire with a gas can in both hands. Confidence in our governing institutions is extremely low. Hope that our children and grandchildren will have a better life than we have is all but gone.
Fear, anxiety, anger, confusion, and uncertainty abounds.
As believers, we are not immune to these feelings and emotions. Our faith does not blind us to the realities of life. Nor does it shield us from the difficulties of life. If we pulled up the blinds on the windows of our heart for a moment so that others could see in, chances are they wouldn't see everything clean and, in its place, but would see it strewn with worry, fear, doubt and uncertainty.
We understand it rains on the just and the unjust. We walk the same rough terrain as everyone else. We endure the same storms as everyone else, but we can walk with confidence, contentment, peace, and joy. While we know that statement to be true, we also know walking by faith and walking with confidence, contentment, peace, and joy is not easy.
For the next few weeks, I hope to speak faith and courage to your hearts with God's Word as we turn to a familiar passage of Scripture and take a fresh look at an old friend, one we looked at in detail 14 years ago, the 23rd Psalm.
- This is not just a psalm that should be reserved for funerals and hospitals.
- Dallas Willard says, "We would be better of its truths were inscribed more on hearts than tombstones."
- It is a psalm for each day. It is a psalm for today. It is theology at work. It reveals a personal God who relates to us as individuals.
Psalm 23.1-6 - The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie d ...
Series: Psalm 23
Author: Robert Dawson
Text: Psalm 23
Uneasiness would be a good word to describe how many people feel today. No one knows what each day will bring, and we are less and less confident that it will bring anything good. The world is on fire and it those in charge are running toward the fire with a gas can in both hands. Confidence in our governing institutions is extremely low. Hope that our children and grandchildren will have a better life than we have is all but gone.
Fear, anxiety, anger, confusion, and uncertainty abounds.
As believers, we are not immune to these feelings and emotions. Our faith does not blind us to the realities of life. Nor does it shield us from the difficulties of life. If we pulled up the blinds on the windows of our heart for a moment so that others could see in, chances are they wouldn't see everything clean and, in its place, but would see it strewn with worry, fear, doubt and uncertainty.
We understand it rains on the just and the unjust. We walk the same rough terrain as everyone else. We endure the same storms as everyone else, but we can walk with confidence, contentment, peace, and joy. While we know that statement to be true, we also know walking by faith and walking with confidence, contentment, peace, and joy is not easy.
For the next few weeks, I hope to speak faith and courage to your hearts with God's Word as we turn to a familiar passage of Scripture and take a fresh look at an old friend, one we looked at in detail 14 years ago, the 23rd Psalm.
- This is not just a psalm that should be reserved for funerals and hospitals.
- Dallas Willard says, "We would be better of its truths were inscribed more on hearts than tombstones."
- It is a psalm for each day. It is a psalm for today. It is theology at work. It reveals a personal God who relates to us as individuals.
Psalm 23.1-6 - The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie d ...
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