"The Lord is My Shepherd"

I started to re-read Max Lucado's Safe in the Shepherd's Arms, a book that goes through Psalm 23. The first chapter focuses on "The Lord is My Shepherd." There were some very encouraging thoughts that I wanted to share.

"When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor resided on the first floor. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher's apartment and ask the same question, 'Well, what's the good news?' The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of the wheelchair, and say, 'That is middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor unstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C.'

"You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes. You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of the Pacific. Yahweh is our middle C. A still point in a turning world. Don't we need a still point? Don't we need an unchanging shepherd? ... (emphasis mine)

"Counselors can comfort you in the storm, but you need a God who can still the storm. Friends can hold your hand at hour deathbed, but you need a Yahweh who has defeated the grave. Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life....

"You need a Yahweh.

"And, according to David, you have one. He is your shepherd."
~Max Lucado


I hope that this encourages you like it does me. I am so thankful to have a God who never changes, a God who always has my best interest in mind, a God who is always my middle C.