The Shepherd

"The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need." Psalm 23:1 (NLT)

       Isn't it wonderful to know when you don't have to worry about anything. Where you can just live life and not feel like the weight of the world is completely on your shoulders. God intends for us to live just like that.

        In the old days, the shepherd did pretty much everything for the sheep. They bathed and fed them, they provided shelter for them, and most importantly they kept them from harm. Whenever evil lurked in the camp the shepherd's main responsibility was to eliminate the threat as soon as possible, because the sheep were really incapable of defending themselves.

        Jesus took the care for the sheep to another level in his parable of 100 sheep. He would say that the good shepherd would actually leave the 99 sheep to find the one that went astray. That's the importance the shepherd assigns to each of his flock. David (who wrote this psalm), wrote this from a position of experience as the shepherd, understood that if God was in control of his life... He has all he needed. I believe we all need to get to that same understanding, it would help us live life a little bit more like sheep.