DAILY?READINGS: 2 Samuel 20; Jeremiah 4:3-31; Galatians 5:10-26
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Psalm 23:1
Perhaps the most precious word in the opening verse of this psalm is the little pronoun “my.” What a comfort and joy to know that He is not just “a” shepherd, and not only “the” shepherd, but “my” shepherd. The good Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep (John 10:11), the great Shepherd raised from the dead (Heb. 13:20), the chief Shepherd who will one day come for His people (1 Pet. 5:4), is mine, my Shepherd. I therefore lack nothing. —Jim Flanigan
Dear Saviour, Thou art mine,
How sweet the thought to me!
Let me repeat Thy name,
And lift my heart to Thee
—A. Hudson