Moment of Meditation: Shadow of Death (Psalm 23:4)
Series: Familiar Psalms
Original Broadcast: September 2007
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff,
they comfort me."
(Psalm 23:4)
The valley of the shadow of death. That's an apt description of our fallen world. We have a war that's been raging for six years since the attacks on the World Trade Center. We worry about our military personnel. We worry about another terrorist attack may occur.
On top of that, we have natural disasters that shake us to our core. Bridges collapsing. Rivers flowing over their banks. Millions of dollars in damage. Dozens of lives lost. What what about the crops? The list of worries keeps piling up.
But David placed his confidence in the rod and staff of the Lord. They comforted him because he knew that nothing that could happen in this world can take him away from those things which the Lord had promised him. As St. Paul writes, "For I am sure that neither death nor life, ... nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). Amen.
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