{"id":724,"date":"2012-04-06T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teach4god.com\/OTS\/?p=724"},"modified":"2014-04-02T05:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T12:23:59","slug":"psalm-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/2012\/04\/06\/psalm-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psalm 23<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The key to this psalm is the first verse and is found in the pronoun “my.” If this is not true of you, then this psalm is not a psalm that you can cling to for it is only for those who call to God as Savior, Shepherd.<\/p>\n

For all the beauty and splendor of this psalm, it is a psalm reminding us that God meets our needs (cf. Philippians 4.19<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Psalm 37.25<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>). These would include meeting the needs of our entire being. He meets my safety and physical needs as-well-as my need for belonging, love, and meaning. He guides me (2-3), He protects me (4), He is with me (4), His loving-kindness is known to me (6), and He gives me victory (5) with purpose (6). The one thing that is not given me that I have to choose is to serve others the same way He has served me <\/span>(Mark 10.43-45<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The question to answer is this: Whom am I shepherding toward Christ today?<\/p>\n

Many authors have poured over these verses and waxed eloquently (i.e., Max Lucado Traveling Light<\/em> or Philip Keller A Shepherds Look at Psalm 23)<\/em>. I refer the reader to books such as these to explore the depths of this chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The key to this psalm is the first verse and is found in the pronoun “my.” If this is not true of you, then this psalm is not a psalm that you can cling to for it is only for those who call to God as Savior, Shepherd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,114],"tags":[36,208,209,212,112,32,26,60,211,210],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-daily-studies","category-psalms","tag-david","tag-keller","tag-lucado","tag-maslow","tag-philippians","tag-promises","tag-remember","tag-research","tag-service","tag-shepherd","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach4god.com\/OTS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}