Before you get to Matt. 6: 9-13 [The Lord’s prayer] that Jesus said to offer [for the scripture to read you] seek to understand the Psalms.
How does a Psalm work?
The Psalm hugs us into itself. The words, the essence of it holds us.
“The Lord is my
shepherd; I shall not want.”
[Ps. 23]
Of course, you are not sheep. And God is not a literal
shepherd.
Yet the Lord is
our shepherd-- a guide, a protector, always present, physical strength from
possible harm. Nothing gets beyond him. He will keep his eye on even one sheep,
one person. He sees you.
Although we
may not understand all the connections God makes, he waits for us to allow the
connections. Let the words of the Psalm embrace you, “the Lord is my
shepherd”; enter what it is, the Holy Spirit waits.
A shepherd
doesn’t force a sheep’s position, unless the blundering sheep gets caught in an
annoying fence wire.
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