GREEN PASTURES

PSALM 23
The Lord is my shepherd
I shall not be in want
He makes me lie down
In green pastures
He leads me beside
Still waters

IN DEPENDENCE

The Lord is my Shepherd
I will always be in need
I need His constant protection
As I continue to believe

The Lord is my Savior
I can never save myself
I am lost without His love
In this world bent on Hell

The Lord is my Sovereign
 He is in control of my life
Nothing happens outside of His will
 Even though we cry and wonder why
 
 The Lord is my Strength
I will always remain weak
 Only then can I really see
How my God takes care of me
 
 JEFFREE
JAN2010

The Lord is my shepherd
 I shall not be in want
He makes me lie down
 In green pastures
He leads me beside 
 Still waters

PSALM 23

What are those green pastures and quiet waters to which God leads us?  And where are they?  What is the reality behind these metaphors?  

God Himself is our "true pasture" (Jer. 50:7) and our pool of quiet water.  He is our true nourishment, our living water.  If we do not take Him in, we will starve.  

There is a hunger in the human heart which nothing but God can satisfy.  There is a thirst that no one but He can quench.  "Do not work for food that spoils, " Jesus said, "but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. . . . I am the bread of life.  He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty" (Jn. 6:27,35).

Malcolm Muggeridge's confession is a striking expression of this thought:  

I may, I suppose, regard myself as being a relatively successful man.  People occasionally look at me on the street.  That's fame.  I can fairly easily earn enough to qualify for the highest slopes of inland revenue.  That's success.  Furnished with money and a little fame, even the elderly, if they care to, can partake of trendy diversions.  That's pleasure.  It might happen once in a while that something I said or wrote was sufficiently heeded to persuade myself that it represented a serious impact on our time.  That's fulfillment.  Yet I say to you, and I beg of you to believe me, multiply these tiny triumphs by a million, add them all together, and they are nothing, less than nothing, a positive impediment, measured against one draft of that living water that is offered to the spiritually hungry.  

From the Discovery Series booklet written by David Roper: The Lord Is My Shepherd (pp, 17, 18)

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