OCR Text |
Show Bible Comment: Shepherd's Psalm Is Timeless Piece Of Truth, Beauty 'THE 23rd Psalm, the Shep- herd's Psalm, has taken hold of human experience as perhaps no other single passage. There is no purer gom in all literature than tkese six brief verses in the; modem jaa.tetion. j It a good psalm to read! when peopl? are faced witbJ want and danger, as a greati many are today. It reminds usl that these sad and dark experi-; ences are not all of human life,' lhat they, are net indeed of God's purpose and planning. It chows that there is for man a life of peace and quiet, of faith and strength. 'It shows that goodness and loving kindness haven't left tlie universe. The psalm strikes an even deeper note in its sense of security. se-curity. Though one walk "through the valley of the shadow shad-ow of death," there is in life something stronger than the forces of destruction and decay. We speak of this as the Psalm of David. Though a man of blood and war, there was something some-thing in David very fine ' jentle as well as stron : courageous. We see him L. . ths young ' shepherd boy going out with great daring to kill Goliath. Dut there was a later incident in his life that reveals the quality of his spirit. Hard pressed in battle, he had made a casual wish for a drink of water from the well at Bethlehem. Beth-lehem. Valiant soldiers heard the wish and risked their lives to oring him a cruse of water. David vould not drink it to lake his thirst. lien had staked their lives on it and made it ;omethin2 sacred. He poured it out on the ground as an offering, s great act of .faith and worship which only a deeply feeling man eould hava conceived or performed. per-formed. It was this quality in David that made him capable of writing euch a psalm. It never grows eld. Men have ead it hundreds cf times but it :emains vitally a lesson to be studied and pcetr.y to be enjoyed. |