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Just wanna bless you with this devotional i read during my quiet time! Hope it helps you a lot. CHEERS

MY SHEPHERD

(Psalms 23)

It's a jungle out there. Life is a jungle. It's dangerous and treacherous. It's full predators and enemies. You can get seriously hurt in a jungle. Sheep don't fit in the jungle. Lions-they fit. tigers-they fit. Elephants, snakes, and crocodiles-they all fit. But sheep don't fit. They would be out of place in the jungle. It's just not their turf. In the wilds, a sheep could very easily be transformed into lamb chops in a matter of seconds. Thats why sheep don't usually hang out there.

Close to 200times in the pages of scripture, God's people are called sheep. Just think of the magnitude of the creation. He could have called us eagles, gorillas, collies, or armadillos. But he didn't. He called us sheep.

Psalms 23 is a dangerous section of the Bible. It's hazardous because we know it so well. Many of us have memorized this treasured text. Even many non-Christians are familiar with it. The danger of Psalm 23 is that it has lost its significance for us because we have become so familiar with it. But it has something very special for all of us, people living in a fast-track society. Psalm 23 specifically speaks to the pressures of our culture. it is remarkably contemporary. This tiny psalm is critical because it ultimately tells us how we can survive in the jungle of life.

The sum of its verses, in essence, is a survival manual for the modern-day jungle. it is the manual that tells us how to be in it, but not of it. "If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but i chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you" (John 15:19). Every sheep needs to know the 23rd Psalm well. Quite frankly, it will keep you from the lamb-chop fate the every sheep wants to avoid.

Responding: How am i troubled today because of what i am facing in the jungle? Is there someone who is a threat to me and is committed to doing me harm? David said, "The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall i be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1)

Following: As Sheep, we need to listen to our Shepherd.

Love
Cynthia
(have a nice week)