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Shepherd Me
“Rest for the Soul”
July 7, 2019
Introduction
This morning, we are continuing our series, “Shepherd Me.”
In this series, we are taking a look at love was Max Lucado said about :
Do more beloved words exist?
Framed and hung in hospital rooms, scratched on prison walls, quoted by the young, and whispered by the dying.
In these lines, sailors have found a harbor, the frightened have found a father, and strugglers have found a friend.
And because the passage is so deeply loved, it is widely known.
Can you find ears on which these words have never fallen?
Set to music in a hundred songs, translated into a thousand tongues, domiciled in a million hearts.
This summer, we are going line by line, phrase by phrase through this touching Psalm.
Read Text (ESV)
¶ The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
¶ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
¶ You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
“He makes me lie down in green pastures.”
This phrases emphasizes rest.
Illustration: Sleep Deprived Parents
I kept trying to open the front door of my house by pressing the unlock button of my car key.
Passed on couch: Upon hearing the baby cry I woke up and started rocking my arm.
Was the baby in my arm?
Nope, it was the cat.
I folded an entire basket of dirty laundry.
When my baby woke up in the middle of the night crying I answered the door thinking it was someone ringing the doorbell.
During my first month as a new mom I texted my husband (who was in bed next to me) to ask him where he was.
I filled a sippy with milk and handed it to the dog.
After a long night I had to run to the drug store.
I sat at a red light for what seemed like forever — I even swore at a car that honked at me — until I realized it wasn't a red light.
It was a stop sign.
I had to go a whole day at work like this:
I made coffee without any coffee grinds.
It wasn't until the second sip that I realized I was just drinking hot water.
I'd been up two days after coming home from the hospital and realized that I hadn't eaten, so I made frozen waffles — and poured dish soap on them instead of syrup.
I finished a full grocery shopping trip, then fastened the baby into her car seat and drove away — leaving all of the groceries in the cart in the parking lot.
In the middle of the night, I tried to flush my 8-week-old’s diaper down the toilet, rather than throw it out.
Desperate to get some sleep and calm our son down, I wrapped him in a swaddle blanket.
When he started breaking out of it, as he always did, I slathered it in packing tape to keep it on.
Miraculously, it worked, and we all got a little rest.
“When you’re exhausted, your scheduling ability just tanks.
Our daughter kept us up all week, and I think I may have logged about 10 hours of total sleep.
I woke up one morning thinking it was Friday, got ready for work, and drove to the office.
I leave before my wife gets up, so she didn’t even notice.
I was like, ‘Awesome!
No traffic!’
Then I got there, and the building was locked.
This phrase that we are looking at this morning is all about rest.
Before, we look at the two points in your sermon notes.
I want to keep in mind two things.
First, green pastures symbolize the place of rest.
Throughout the sermon this morning, we are going to be talking about places of rest.
Green pastures symbolize the place of rest.
Second, green pastures are made possible by the shepherd.
Green pastures in Israel didn’t happen by chance or accident.
Green pastures happened because of the careful and deliberate preparation of the shepherd.
Green pastures were not the natural terrain of Judea.
The hills around Bethlehem where David kept his flock were not lush and green.
Even today they are white and parched.
Any green pasture in Judea is the work of some shepherd.
He has cleared the rough, rocky land.
Stumps have been torn out, and brush has been burned.
Irrigation.
Cultivation.
Such are the work of a shepherd.
Green pastures symbolized a place of rest prepared by the shepherd.
This morning, I want to show you two ways in which God provides rest for our souls.
1. Rest from our troubles.
Illustration: The photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire.
Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane.
Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting.
When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway.
He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!"
The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the air.
"Fly over the north side of the fire," yelled the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes."
"Why?" asked the pilot
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"Because I'm going to take pictures," cried the photographer.
"I'm a photographer and photographers take pictures!"
After a pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the instructor?"
Sheep can’t rest when there is trouble.
Trouble for sheep can anything from dangerous animals seeking harm to the sheep to agitation from tiny insects that drive sheep crazy.
Trouble that keep sheep from rest could also come in the form of tension within the flock.
Sheep can’t rest when there is trouble.
Same is true of us.
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