Monday 16 Nov 2009

Monday Reading: Psalm 23:1-6
 
Key Verse: Psalm 23:1
1  The LORD is my Shepherd; I shall not want.
 
Devotion:
The more time that you spend with people the more that you get to know them and the more that you get to trust what they do and say – so long as they honest! When you do find someone who is trustworthy and is willing to stick by you then you want to be with them and you want to spend more time with them. When you get to know Christ you will very quickly find that He is more than that and that the more time you spend with Him the more time you want to spend with Him! David attests to that through this psalm he wrote a few thousand years ago!

The very first line of the psalm tells us exactly how he thinks of God. David had spent enough time talking to God that he now knew that God was with him always. He knew that he could trust everything that God did and said and he knew that there was nothing that God could not do! The comfort and support that God gave him was above everything that he could get from friends and family and it was that that made him whole.

How he described what God was like was by comparing Him to a shepherd that never left His flock. A Shepherd that was willing to lay make sure that His flock had the best pastures to be in and had access to water at all times. No matter how hard the times would get, David knew that God was always going to be there and would always bring him out the other side knowing that things were all alright! He knew God supported him even in front of his enemies and because he had seen that time and time again he knew that God’s love would follow him throughout his life. We can know that by trusting God too.

Points to Ponder:
Do you have someone really close?

Do you realise God is closer still?