![]() If you’re crying in your heart, God wants you to know he can see your tears.Īnd so, I will read the Psalm 23 to you. Those are not the shield of faith, or the breastplate of righteousness! They are the armour of fear – the fear of being hurt, the fear of being rejected, the fear of tomorrow, the fear of what to make of your life, the fear of lack, the fear of purposelessness… if you have experienced any of these passions, God is going to talk to you. To remove the false barriers and social armour. I therefore adjure you to open your tenderised heart to God right now. May you feel his hands upon your shoulder, saying, My daughter, I understand. May you feel his hand upon your shoulder, saying, My son, let’s talk it over. There will be healing, the taking away of despair, the wiping away of tears. It is a message for those who are distressed and depressed for those who are hurting deeply under the habiliments and toga we all wear – the habiliment of enforced gaiety in pursuit of fulfillment of the ephemeral norms of society and her conventions. It is a message for the hurting, the emotionally wounded, those dying on the inside. Rather, I have come to intone the comfort of the Holy Spirit into our hearts. ![]() I have not come to preach the God of damnation. I have not come to proclaim a judgmental God. Today, I have therefore not come to declare a condemnatory God. The God that I preach to you is the One who forgives mistakes, wipes away tears. He wants to demonstrate his compassion and mercy for the sinner. Your God and my God wants to heal our relationships, heal our marriages. ![]() He wants to bind up broken hearts, wipe away tears. The God who is present in our midst as you read wants to heal souls. God wants to whisper his love and compassion into your heart. Today, you will meet a caring and wonderful Father. The dimension of God we will experience this day is not the elemental display of his awesomeness in the terrifying splendor of smoke and fire like on Mount Sinai. His Spirit will work deliverances.Īnd so what I sense is a kinder, gentler God, a God who wants to be intimate in his communication with us. God is going to answer many prayers this day. God wants to comfort his people, to make sense of their experiences and circumstances to them. That God has surmised that all of our situations and circumstances are locatable within the premises of the verses of this psalm. It would mean therefore that God has located everyone of us in the ecclesiastical collective within the square dimensions of Psalm 23. For I am a man brimming with revelation of the arcane intricacies of the word of God. Our message will be simple, for it is the Spirit himself who impressed this message upon my heart and this despite the many options of the esoterica of the infinite dimensions of the word I would have loved to share. Six is the number of labour, the number of struggles. It is the number of imperfection and human weakness in Biblical numerology. The number “6” as you well know is the number of man. And to confirm the fact that this psalm is written from the perspective of man, the psalm has only six verses. And so we see God deflecting attention from himself to enumerate things from our perspective so that his word captures our frailties, feelings and fears – that it may come to pass that which was written, that “we do not have a high priest who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities.” (Hebrews 4:15). What is interesting however, is that the psalm is not written from his perspective rather it is written from the window level of human vista. Now, the identity of the subject matter of Psalm 23 is not hidden. And so we see the love, care and responsibilities of Jesus the Christ as the Shepherd of our souls in this evocative trilogy. In Psalm 23, we see the Great Shepherd tending his flock, and in Psalm 24, we see the Chief Shepherd rewarding his flock. In Psalm 22, we see the Good Shepherd giving his life for the sheep. It is the second in a trilogy of messianic psalms, sandwiched as it were between its precedent, Psalm 22, and its antecedent Psalm 24. Our text is the well-known Psalm 23, popularly referred to as the Shepherd’s Psalm. It was penned circa 1,020 BC, give or take a few decades. It is one of the most powerful contributions to human literature. ![]()
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