How is everyone progressing on your adventurous journey in Psalm 23 according to The 90 Day Challenge that I presented to you last week? (If you don’t know what I am referring to, or haven’t started yet, go back and read my posting from 5/18/11 entitled "The 90 Day Challenge" .)
You have to understand that Psalm 23 was a revolutionary prose when it was written. In Old Testament times, the concept of God as our father, or His coming Son, who was prophesized throughout the Old Testament writings, as being our Good Shepherd was unknown to the Children of Israel. They could not understand the concept because they were not born again. They did not have a means of entering into the family of God at that time. Jesus introduced God as our Father to His followers during His earthly ministry.
As born again believers, we now look with a clear understanding, at the meaning of the 23rd Psalm. So David had a relationship with God that went way beyond the common Hebrew of his day. (This was exemplified, once again, by his confident stance against Goliath, and then with the enemy armies that fought the Israelites during his reign as their King.)
As David looked ahead at the future life of the believer, he could boldly proclaim the goodness of God with his statement made at the end of this prophetic psalm. Verse six says “Your kindness and love will always be with me each day of my life.” (CEV) This is one place where the CEV translation tends to miss a portion of the emphasis of this verse as translated by other versions. The King James translation says “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me…” David was pointedly declaring that God’s goodness and love was an irreproachable truth that the believer could depend on! The great British pastor and author Charles Spurgeon wrote of this verse in his “magnum opus” writing “The Treasury of David” that “This is a fact as indisputable as it is encouraging, and therefore a heavenly verily, or “surely” is set as a seal upon it.” (see: http://www.spurgeon.org/treasury/treasury.htm)
In other words, this is a truth that you can bank on in your daily walk. Don’t allow worry and fear to drive your day today. Put your total trust in the One Who loved you so much, that He gave His life for you. He is definitely someone that you can depend on! Put that confidence to work for you and go out and have a great day filled with the good things that only the Master can provide for you! Stay tuned and keep asking yourself… “What (GOOD THINGS) am I expecting today?
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