The 23rd Psalm is widely known as one of the most familiar and best-loved passages of scripture in all the Word of God. The first verse says --"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." What blessed assurance -- what sweetness -- what comfort -- and what wonderful peace is found in those familiar words! As we begin a new week, I'm so very thankful that I belong to the Good Shepherd who knows His sheep.
I like this beautiful little story --
"Dr. Forsyth has told how a friend of his was on a sheep farm in Australia and saw the owner take a little lamb and place it in a huge enclosure where there were several thousand sheep whose bleating, together with the shouting of the sheep shearers, was deafening. Then the lamb uttered its feeble cry, and the mother sheep at the other end of the enclosure heard it and started to find her lamb. (Praise the Lord)!
'Do not imagine that you are beyond the reach of the Good Shepherd,' said the preacher. 'He sees you, He hears you -- every good desire of yours is known to Him, and every secret longing for better things. He sees you as if there were no other child in the whole world'." Amen!
And as you live this week for Jesus, don't forget the wonderful promise in I Peter 5:4 --
"And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."
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