Gotcha!

The Twenty-Third Psalm has been familiar to most of us since childhood. For many of us it is like an old friend. When life made us wonder if God was there for us, made us wonder if God cared, Psalm Twenty-Three put comforting arms around us and reassured us of a Loving God who commands, leads, restores, comforts, prepares, and anoints so that in darkness and in light, in life and in death, we may dwell with Him:

The Lord is my Shepherd,
I shall not want;
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters;
He restores my soul.

Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil;
for You are with me,
Your rod and Your staff,
they comfort me.

You anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days…