Psalm 23: 1-2
“The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.”
With the future unknown, I want to be like a sheep. When troubles come, I want to be a sheep. When I am trying to figure out what to do and I have no idea what tomorrow will bring, I want to be a sheep.
No, I am not a big wool blanket guy and I am not saying go back to bed, see how many sheep you can count, and wake up when this is all over. But what I am saying is be like sheep. Psalm 23 says it perfectly. In times like these we have to trust our the Shepherd, Jesus, who knows what’s best for us.
In verses 2-3, it is the Shepherd that is doing the action. “He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside still waters, He refreshes my soul, He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.” As we can see in these verses, it’s not up to us. As sheep, we are along for the ride, trusting, not in ourselves and what we are going to do next, but completely and wholehearted in what the Shepherd is going to do for us.
As we follow his leading we have to trust. Sheep are reliant on the shepherd. As we should be reliant on Jesus in times like this.
I encourage you today, to spend five minutes, or more, on your knees, or just sitting, and asking God to help you trust in his leading and his guiding. Ask him to make you (as goofy as it sounds) more like a sheep, that you would be reliant on him as your shepherd in this hard time.