■ by Walter L. Wilson went to the Lord about it. He drew closer to the Lord. I had a dog once that would sharpen her claws on the upholstery in the- parlor. When I would spank her with a little twig, she would draw closer to me. She would gradually crawl closer and closer and look up at me with those tearful eyes. She didn’t run away from me because I spanked her. She drew nearer. The Lord wants us to do that. He loves us so much that He wants to train us and mold us and make us into His will and His pur pose. David loved his Shephe rd and sang about Him. Let me ask you—do you? Do you really have the Lord for your Shepherd? Do you follow Him so people will know who you be long to? David wasn’t a man who cared for God one day and then quit Him the next. He wasn’t a Sunday visitor. There are some people that go to church only three times. The first time they are carried in to be sprinkled with water; the second time they go in to be sprinkled with rice; and the third time they are rolled in to be sprinkled with dirt; and that’s about all they ever know about a church. But David wasn’t that kind of a man. He was immi nently successful in business. He was consistently v i c t o r i ou s with his army, but the Lord was his Shepherd all the time. With all these human successes David leaned on the guid ance and wisdom of his wonderful Shepherd. Don’t you trust in anything you can lose, money or health, religion or any other thing. You trust only Christ Jesus. David didn’t feel that he had sufficient wisdom nor had good knowledge to run his army. He be lieved in God and followed Him. May each one of us be able to say, “the Lord is my Shepherd.” 15
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D avid , a great king and a very wealthy man, sa id something that ought to interest you and me. He said, “the Lord is my Shepherd” (Psalm 23:1). Think of a million aire, the head of an army, the gov ernor general of the country saying that. Why should he say “the Lord is my Shepherd” if he had millions of dollars ? Although he was powerful and had a great undefeated army and his tremendous wealth enabled him to purchase anything his heart wanted at any time, he depended upon none of these things at all for joy and peace. He might lose his army and men mi gh t take his wealth, but no one could take his Shepherd away from him. David was too wise to trust his life to things that were so effervescent and tran sient as money, fame and power. He trusted his life to the One who ruled his life, the One who gave him his life, his lovely, lovely Lord. David doesn’t say Jesus is my shepherd. Christ wasn’t born yet; but he didn’t say Joel is my shep herd, nor Joshua is my shepherd. He said, “the Lord is my Shepherd.” It is the Lord who controls the world, who keeps it from flying around off its orbit and keeps the sun shining. The Lord, the Unchanging One, the Almighty One, the Great One, the Precious One, is my Shepherd. The Lord is able to take care of him safely through dark days and bright days. He ended the Psalm by saying, “surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.” All the days, the good days and the bad days, the sweet days and the sour days, the cloudy days and the bright days, the days of tears and the days of sunshine, the days of defeat and the days of victory. No wonder he could say the Lord was his Shepherd. When things went wrong David
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