Todays Truthful Minute

•  The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want. Psalms 23:1

If you have been involved in church for a length of time, you have probably heard and been taught from the 23rd Psalm. In the next few days, I will be doing my truthful minutes centering on what we understand about each verse, one at a time and starting today with verse one.

And so what does it mean that the Lord is our Shepard?

There are two important things we need to know about this verse. 

One that Jesus had laid down his life for his sheep and second, his sheep know his voice and follow him.

But why is an animal like sheep, who for the most part are dirty, likened to humans.

First of all, that is easy if you look at sin being dirty. But, looking at their nature, it is their tendency to go off from the group and get lost. So as humans we can identify with sheep. We sin, and as believers, we tend to go off on our own at times to get lost, and away from Jesus who is our Shepard. 

When sheep wander away from their shepard, they can get into trouble. And it is the same for us. If we leave our Shepard, and go into sin and stay there, we can cause ourselves to get into dangerous places. 

Sin has consequences, and can lead us down many different paths that we do not want to go. 

But Jesus, our Shepard, never leaves us, even though we go off into sin. He usually lets us have consequences to show us we need to return to him, but he never lets us completely go. He is always there, ready to pick us up and carry us back to the fold, when we mess up and confess our sin to him.

If you would like to read more about sheep, there is much more that is quite interesting and goes along with this subject. You can find out more at:    What does it mean that the Lord is my Shepherd (Psalm 23)? | GotQuestions.org

Hello, Friends. Thanks for coming by. God bless!