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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

JANUARY The Twenty-second MY OWN SHEPHERD

PSALM xxiii.

How shall we touch this lovely psalm and not bruise it? It is exquisite as |a violet by a mossy stone!| Exposition is almost an impertinence, its grace is so simple and winsome.

There is the ministry of rest. |He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.| The Good Shepherd knows when my spirit needs relaxation. He will not have me always |on the stretch.| The bow of the best violin sometimes requires to have its strings |let down.| And so my Lord gives me rest.

And there is the discipline of change. |He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.| Those strange roads in life, unknown roads, by which I pass into changed circumstances and surroundings! But the discipline of the change is only to bring me into new pastures, that I may gain fresh nutriment for my soul. |Because they have no changes they fear not God.|

And there is |the valley of the shadow,| cold and bare! What matter? He is there! |I will fear no evil.| What if I see |no pastures green|? |Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me!| The Lord, who is leading, will see after my food. |Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.| I have a quiet feast while my foes are looking on!

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