Thursday, May 11, 2017
Psalm 23: 1-2 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul ...
THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD!
People everywhere are wandering about shepherdless, without direction, aimlessly living out their pitiful lives without the advantages of real food for their souls, real waters to satisfy their thirst. The solutions which they find prove to be mirages; their philosophies are inadequate and vain; their latest notions and schemes are unworkable; yea, man's noblest aspirations and attainments never satisfy, and their finest morals are immoral to the eyes and mind of their Creator. Men and women become weary in their search. And when Jesus descended upon this Earth to become their Shepherd, we are told that--in His travels of teaching and preaching and healing--when He beheld the multitudes, He was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd (cf. Matthew 9:36).
How wonderful then for all of you who have heard the voice of the Good Shepherd and learned to follow that voice and only that voice ... for has He not led you into green pastures and beside the still waters of His Word and Sacraments? How soul-satisfying are not the eternal truths found in His holy Word, compared with the parched, barren, and fruitless thinking and notions of the would-be-wise of this Earth? Here you may lie down to rest; here you can drink to your heart's content from the Rivers of Salvation.
-- from the "Lutheran Spokesman," April 2003.
