Psalms 23:1
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
David doesn’t write “the Lord is a shepherd” or “the Lord is our shepherd.” He writes “my shepherd.” This isn’t teaching that is recited from a distance. It’s a claim of a personal relationship
David had been a shepherd before he was a king. He understood what it meant to walk ahead of a flock, watching for danger, leading them to water, or carrying the weak ones when they couldn’t keep up. So when he wrote “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want,” he wasn’t reaching for a good line. He was telling us what God was to him, and to us. Not a distant God, not managing from far off, but personal, present, and near.
So for you, when circumstances feel uncertain, when the pasture looks thin, this verse invites us to stop measuring contentment by what’s in front of us and start measuring it by who is walking beside us.
Prayer: Lord, teach me to find contentment not in what I have, but in who You are.
I’m Lonnie Davis, and these are thoughts worth thinking.