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Psalms 23:1-6
The twenty-third psalm is certainly the best loved of all the confidence psalms and probably the best loved of all Scriptures.
David wrote it to express his confidence in the Lord’s care for him.
As he reflected on that care, he realized that it was very much like the care of a shepherd for his sheep (vv.
1–4) and the care of a host for his guests (vv.
5–6).
David was very familiar with both.
Much of his time during his boyhood years was occupied with the care of his father’s sheep, and one of his duties as a king was hosting guests.
Introduction:
Davids song , Davids Poem or I like to say his story
The twenty-third psalm is certainly the best loved of all the confidence psalms and probably the best loved of all Scriptures.
David wrote it to express his confidence in the Lord’s care for him.
As he reflected on that care, he realized that it was very much like the care of a shepherd for his sheep (vv.
1–4) and the care of a host for his guests (vv.
5–6).
David was very familiar with both.
Much of his time during his boyhood years was occupied with the care of his father’s sheep, and one of his duties as a king was hosting guests.
The twenty-third psalm is certainly the best loved of all the confidence psalms and probably the best loved of all Scriptures.
David wrote it to express his confidence in the Lord’s care for him.
In this psalm, the sandal is on the other foot.
Here David is not the shepherd but the sheep and not the host but the guest, and it is none other than the Lord God himself who is doing the shepherding and the hosting
Shepherd & King
As he reflected on that care, he realized that it was very much like the care of a shepherd for his sheep (vv.
1–4) and the care of a host for his guests (vv.
5–6).
David was very familiar with both.
Much of his time during his boyhood years was occupied with the care of his father’s sheep, and one of his duties as a king was hosting guests.
David however, is on the other foot.
In Psalms, he isn't’ the shepherd or the king, but the sheep & the servant.
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The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
“The Lord”- Yhwh as in the Lords proper name.
Exodus 6:
Elshaddai = God Almighty, but My name is Lord (YHWH)
His name was so sacred that people would pray before writing his name down.
Still today people do not know how it is really spelt, because they removed the vows, and left the consonants.
David knew him as “LORD” and he says YHWH is my shepherd and because that......
“I shall not want” - (hsr) meaning no longer inadequate, in amount or degree.
“I shall not want” - (hsr) meaning no longer inadequate, in amount or degree.
“He makes” & “He leads” - causes me to recline, to rest, to sit back and relax a little.
We are living in
“Acceleration society”
The more time we have, the more urgently we convince ourselves that it is running out faster.
By living longer, we have more time altogether.
And there is also more free time within that time.
In 1965, housework alone took, on average, 40 hours a week.
Try fitting in Facebook, Twitter and various forms of self-beautification on top of that.
And yet we are all too busy – too busy to read, too busy to finish anything, too busy, even, to stop.
The German social theorist Hartmut Rosa has called this paradox the “acceleration society”.
Labour-saving technology, which delivers free time, has been accompanied by “the dramatic rise in feelings of stress and lack of time”.
At one level, the speeding up and, hence, shrinking of time is literally nonsense.
Yet it is so deeply felt that it is at least emotionally true.
Being busy has become a style of living, something else that needs to be fitted into our lives.
The German social theorist Hartmut Rosa has called this paradox the “acceleration society”.
Labour-saving technology, which delivers free time, has been accompanied by “the dramatic rise in feelings of stress and lack of time”.
At one level, the speeding up and, hence, shrinking of time is literally nonsense.
Yet it is so deeply felt that it is at least emotionally true.
Being busy has become a style of living, something else that needs to be fitted into our lives.
“Keeping busy?” is the new way of asking how someone is feeling or, more accurately, how they are getting on in the world.
Busyness is a synonym for success.
“It’s been manic!” is shorthand for “ I’m doing well”, which may or may not be true, but certainly reveals how people want to be seen.
http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2015/01/we-live-acceleration-society-less-you-achieve-more-important-it-look-busy
“Keeping busy?” is the new way of asking how someone is feeling or, more accurately, how they are getting on in the world.
Busyness is a synonym for success.
“It’s been manic!” is shorthand for “God, I’m doing well”, which may or may not be true, but certainly reveals how people want to be seen.
- a field covered with grass or herbage.
“green pastures & still waters”- the Hebrew word is MENU-HA the obvious term would be without wind or waves, however one author goes as far as to say that it is a place where you gather some composure, a quiet place.
This has to do with finding rest in the Word of God.
The ‘green pastures’ represent food to the sheep.
The lying down represents leisure or time.
By the grace of the Lord, then, his people spend time meditating on the food which he has prepared for them, which is the Word of God.
Rest from Sin.
This gives me rest from all the stresses of this world.
The devotional time I have with God isn’t just a morning thing, it is a daily thing.
The more I do it the more I love it.
Rest from Sin.
All God’s people have been given rest from the guilt of sin and the fear of condemnation through the redeeming work of Christ.
They are God’s people by virtue of that.
But they still need rest from hunger, from annoying parasites and from conflict.
We find these as we look to the green pastures in the Word of God.
We are either grazing in those pastures or we are straying from our shepherd.
Illustration: Eva-May & Daddy time: Every 2nd morning.
This gives me rest from all the stresses of this world.
The devotional time I have with God isn’t just a morning thing, it is a daily thing.
The more I do it the more I love it.
“restores my soul” -the sense of the word is to bring back into the original.
“For His name’s sake” a field covered with grass or herbage.
Really kicks off the story in which we find David in.
The story opens up with a victorious moment.
“Walks” to walk, but it also means to behave.
It is a behaviour, an attitude.
In my imagination, when someone is walking with attitude, its written on their face.
Matthew Henry notes that the saints of God will not get lost in it but will come out safely.6
“Valley” a long depression in the surface of the land.
VALLEY While admitting that the valley is ‘deep indeed, and dark, and dirty’, Matthew Henry calls it a fruitful place and concludes that death offers ‘fruitful comforts to God’s people’.5
“shadow of death” a deep or large area of dark shadow cast by an object.
Who’s shadow is it?
The devils.
SHADOW A dark shadow may appear to be quite frightening but it has no real power to harm us.
And death, unpleasant and forbidding as it may be, cannot finally do any real harm to the child of God. Henry T. Mahan writes: ‘… Christ has removed the substance of death and only a shadow remains.
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