Psalm 23 cont’d:
He makes me lie down in green pastures…
Have you ever thought why a shepherd would have to “make” his
sheep lie down, especially in pastures of green? Right where the lush grass grows, he leads us
to rest, but then he has to coerce us to lie down!
For some reason, we often see the ground beneath us as brown dirt, dusty ashes, and hard as a rock – and we certainly
don’t want to stay there. We want to
move on….
However, if the Lord is our shepherd, and we lack for
nothing, it might just take a yank around the neck to get us to rest and feed
where it is he leads.
A lot of times our own perception of the ground on which we
walk is skewed. We see a road up ahead
as an uphill climb to nowhere, but God sees it as an opportunity to take us
higher to a resting place with him.
It doesn’t matter what color, how hard, or how dry your plot
of land on which you stand has become, God has rest for you, if you’ll submit to
his pull, to lie down.
And when you do, the ground beneath your feet might just turn
a beautiful hue of green and provide you a well-needed nap from your fret and
worry of the day…
That’s the Good Shepherd’s place for you...a place of peace and rest.
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