The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)

This is a Psalm of David, which is also known as the Shepherd’s Psalm. David was a shepherd who became king. He wrote this Psalm from the perspective of his own life.

Yet, this Psalm also refers to Jesus Christ the Messiah, the anointed one. Even though Jesus came through David’s lineage and He is called the Son of David, our Lord and Saviour was born of a virgin, supernaturally conceived of the Holy Spirit.

While Jesus is our Great Shepherd, there was a point in time that He was also a sheep. When Jesus was on earth, Jehovah God the Father was His Shepherd. In Isaiah 53:7, it says, “He [referring to Jesus] was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”

On the cross, Jesus is the lamb and the sheep, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).

For Christians, as we follow Jesus as our good shepherd, we are “the sheep of his pasture” (Psalm 100:3).

This entire Psalm reflects the names and nature of Jehovah God. Thank God! Jesus is the Shepherd who cares and watches over us by night and by day!