THE Lord is My Shepherd
Pixabay (Public Domain) This photo is so interesting. It appears that the shepherd is wearing a gold ring. If you look closely you may see what looks like a cataract covering one of his eyes. Those two things together, particularly the ring, seem somehow contradictory on an old man wrapped in a burlap bag. What I love about the photo is the lamb in the arms of the shepherd. The little thing knows where he is and just how good it is to be there. He is not like those poor sheep from Matthew 9 who are “ …harassed and helpless. ” Helpless this little lamb is, but he’s safe in the arms of the shepherd. Harassed he certainly isn’t because he is safe in the arms of someone a lot bigger and stronger than anything that might be bent on harassing him. And, from his posture in the picture, that little lamb knows just how safe and secure he is! He knows HIS shepherd. But when I look at the first few lines of Psalm 23, there are no contradictions. “ The Lord is my shepherd… ” Don Baker writes a...