THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
- TIMC
- Aug 28
- 2 min read
On the moors in the Welsh highlands, two ministers once met a young shepherd boy who was illiterate and who had impaired hearing. They carefully explained that Jesus wanted to be his shepherd, that he would always look after him, in much the same way as the boy looked after his sheep.
They taught the boy to remember five simple words: ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ (Psalm 23v1). Using the thumb and fingers of his right hand to help him, they repeated the words slowly, over and over again and each time they got to the fourth word, ‘my’, they’d pause and remind the boy that the psalm was meant for him.
Some years later, one of them was passing through that same village and asked about the shepherd boy. He was told that the previous winter there had been terrible storms and the boy had died on the hills, buried in a snowdrift. The villager who was telling the story said, ‘There was one thing, however, that we didn’t understand. When his body was discovered he was holding the fourth finger of his right hand.’The shepherd boy witnessed that the Lord was indeed his shepherd. He had a personal relationship with the living God and the glorious truth is that we can too.
We too can declare that the Lord is our shepherd in whom we lack nothing all because of what Jesus did for us on the cross at Calvary. As Paul testified to the church in Galatia, He is ‘the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me’ (Galatians 2 v 20). As his people, may we grow deeper in our relationship with Him – the good Shepherd - and as His sheep may we follow Him and be obedient to what He is asking us to do. For His glory. Amen.
[written by Stuart Hunter]
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