Our Shepherd is good. He cares about our needs and supplies us with rest, food, and water. He guides us and protects us. He comforts us in our sorrows. He anoints us as His own and satisfies our souls with meaning. It is true—our cup overflows.

I look behind me and what do I see? There it is! God’s goodness and love.

I look in front of me and what do I see? More goodness and love in a forever home with no shadows, no fears, no disappointments.

I’m brought back to verse one: “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.”

A relationship with God carries us through the difficulties of our present life and holds the promise of rewards in our future that are beyond imagination.

Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Psalm 23:6

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