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The Lord Is My Shepherd
The most quoted passage in the Bible is the Twenty-Third Psalm. Many of us could probably recite most of it from our childhood. Written by the loving shepherd, David, it portrays poetically and definitively the relationship between God and His people.

 

I have often said, and it is true: If I did not know any other Scriptures in the Word of God but Psalm 23, I would be delivered from all of my enemies, have all of my bills paid, my needs supplied, be healed of all of my diseases, and be blessed with the fellowship of the Lord! In this one Psalm are seven of the covenant names of Jehovah. JEHOVAH means “The Covenant God,” and can be translated: “I Am that I Am: I Am the Covenant God.” (This literally means: “I will be what I was, because I Am!)

 

In the Old Testament, there are two Hebrew words that are translated God, Lord, and Lord God. The first is ELOHIM which means Creator. Now, to anyone who believes in a god, to him god is his creator, but not everybody’s god is JEHOVAH. This is God’s Covenant Name. In simple terms, it means: I Am! He is the source of anything and everything we need. There are about sixteen combinations of JEHOVAH titles, such as JEHOVAH-JIREH which means “The Lord is my Provider.” (When the KJV uses all capitals for LORD, it is actually JEHOVAH in Hebrew, whereas Lord is ADONAI.) David began his psalm, “JEHOVAH-ROEH,” which means “JEHOVAH is my Shepherd.”
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What’s A Mother’s Greatest Joy?

 

When John, known as the Apostle of love, penned his letter to an unnamed, but esteemed lady in the Body of Christ, he paid her one of the highest compliments a mother can receive:

 

“I rejoiced greatly that I found of your children walking in truth…” (2 John 4). To have an elder statesman, and the last survivor of the 12 disciples of Jesus, take note of the way a mother raised her children in the truth, and the godly example she provided, is truly a commendation to be coveted by all Christian mothers.

 

In his third letter, written to Gaius, a beloved friend in Christ, John said that he “rejoiced greatly” in a personal way as his father in the Lord, because he had received testimony from other brethren that Gaius was walking in the truth. John said, and I wholeheartedly concur:

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” (3 John 4).

This echoes Proverbs 23:24-25: “The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him. You father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.”

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