Daily Devotional

Psalm 23

How often have we read those words in chapter twenty-three
Of Psalms assuming they were there to help both you and me
Assuming we were just the ones to whom they did apply
Not looking further by God's grace to use the Spirit's eye

How oft have we assumed the Shepherd was just Jesus Christ
Not looking at the context of His life that paid the Price
Laid out before in chapter twenty-two in prophesy
In words that were descriptive of our Lord upon that tree

For as we through expansion by God's Spirit in our mind
Allow Him to reveal to us the Truth therein we find
We see the steps of Jesus in the life He lived before
He died upon the cross the Lamb of God He made Him for

For when God was His Shepherd leading His humanity
He led Him through the pastures and still waters by the sea
As He had no provision of a home where He did stay
And by the sea He taught the people how to live and pray

And though He was forsaken as a Teacher among men
By leaders of His nation whose conviction bothered them
He was restored each morning for the path that He must tread
Until He would be sacrificed to rest among the dead

For in His Father's righteousness He gathered every morn
Through hours of communion with His Spirit He'd adorn
The grace His spirit needed by God's Law and Testament
Preparing for that valley where death was not permanent

Til on that fateful evening when His time did finally come
He sat and ate at table with the faithless prideful ones
After He'd been anointed for the Work He had to do
By Mary with the ointment from the life that she'd been through

And afterward the garden where His cup did overflow
Where He sweat drops of anguish that no other one could know
He knew with perfect certainty He'd done not one thing wrong
To hamper Godly mercy and His goodness for as long

As life He came to bring us to be shared with Him on High
Where we can live together never more to have to die
But in God's sanctuary with Him as our saving King
We too will know His blessing based upon His Offering

Psalm 22 & 23