God's Prescription For My Anxiety
Psalm 23 • Sermon • Submitted
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· 21 viewsIf I pursue the Shepherd goodness and mercy will pursue me.
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Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Follow—Pursue closely
Goodness—Things that are good, kind, beautiful, pleasant, and agreeable.
Mercy—Steadfast love
Goodness supplies all my needs and mercy blots out all my failures and sins.
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
1. Pursue the Shepherd for who He is and not what He can give me
forever--literal translation of the underlying Hebrew is actually “length of days”
house of the Lord—Is it Heaven? The Tabernacle? Relational?
Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!
O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.
David applies the idea of dwelling in the house of the Lord to his present life here on earth – “all the days of my life”.
David is more concerned about the relationship than the location...
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
1. Pursue the Shepherd for who He is and not what He can give me
2. Put my confidence completely in God
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Surely—best translated as an exclamation point!
For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.
The emphasis here is on who God is and what He has done.
HOW TO PURSUE THE SHEPHERD IN EVERY AREA OF MY LIFE
3. Obey the Shepherd even when it doesn’t make sense
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.
If I pursue the Shepherd, goodness and mercy will pursue me