The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. This morning, we're looking at Psalm 23, which is probably everyone's favorite psalm. A pretty non-controversial choice, you'd think. It's one of the two or three passages from the Bible which everybody knows by heart.
People embroider it on pillows.
You see it printed on posters in Sunday School rooms. It's so familiar, and it's so comforting. And I think that we don't always reflect about it as much as we could. We don't ask ourselves what it's about, and we tend to use it for our own purposes. For example, Psalm 23 is not about courage .