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September 9, 2015
Worship: The Lord's My Shepherd (Psalm 23) by Stuart Townend
The Lord’s my shepherd,
I’ll not want;
He makes me lie in pastures green.
He leads me by the still, still waters,
His goodness restores my soul.
He makes me lie in pastures green.
He leads me by the still, still waters,
His goodness restores my soul.
And I will trust in You
alone,
And I will trust in You alone,
For Your endless mercy follows me,
Your goodness will lead me home.
And I will trust in You alone,
For Your endless mercy follows me,
Your goodness will lead me home.
He guides my ways in
righteousness,
And He anoints my head with oil,
And my cup, it overflows with joy,
I feast on His pure delights.
And He anoints my head with oil,
And my cup, it overflows with joy,
I feast on His pure delights.
And though I walk the
darkest path,
I will not fear the evil one,
For You are with me, and Your rod and staff
Are the comfort I need to know.
I will not fear the evil one,
For You are with me, and Your rod and staff
Are the comfort I need to know.
Stuart TownendCopyright ©
1996 Thankyou Music- See more at:
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Witness: Today was a whirlwind. Sleep, phone call from my good friend Glen
posing a theological question that I need to give thought to and not just shoot
from the hip. I brought my granddaughter to her first meeting of Roots, a class
that happens at church every Wednesday night for 5th graders. I am
excited about what God is doing in her life and the life of her family. Slowly
but surely they are moving closer and closer in their walk with God.
Word:
Today and Thursday are
taken up with Church activity and Band of Brothers so I will not be able to dig
into the Word like I wish. I am reading commentaries and meditating on the
Psalm every chance I get. As I think about this Psalm I could on the one hand, be
deeply comforted by this Psalm and on the other hand, I could be deeply
troubled by it. Taken just on its surface one might think that the believer’s
walk with God is one of rest and ease with few problems, and if perchance we
are walking through a dark valley in life, everything will turn out “just
right” because God is with us. When my life doesn’t seem to flow that way how
am I to respond to that? If this view of the Psalm is true, then of course I am
going to wonder what I am doing wrong or am I truly one of God’s sheep. Another
response could be that God really isn’t a good shepherd, or God is a good
shepherd, but even He can’t handle everything so we need to forgive God! Or maybe
this Good Shepherd God is just a myth. Such are the troubling thoughts that can
follow us all the days of our life and we can dwell in the house of unbelief
and misery or the mansion of pleasure and self-gratification and finally
perdition forever. Or… we can take a deeper look at the Psalm and see that our
Good Shepherd is real and that life with Him is rewarding and
when we follow Him our lives will be revitalized and only in Him will we
find our true eternal rest.
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