If He Led You There, He Will Lead You Out!

 
When David said, “The Lord is my shepherd” in Psalm 23, he was not praying. We treat it as a prayer and that is okay, but much more than a prayer, we need to understand that it is one man’s testimony of his absolute submission and reliance on his Lord, Saviour and the shepherd of his soul. It is a statement of his relationship with God. God leads, he follows. God guides, he obeys. And when sometimes God leads him through dark alleys and valleys, his response is this - “I will fear no evil” - because he knows God is with him and he receives comfort from this knowledge.

In describing some of the credentials of God, that shows without a doubt that He is in a league of His own, all by Himself and that none can compare to Him, Moses said these words:

“Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides him there is no other. From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. Because he loved your ancestors and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.
 
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time.” (Deuteronomy 4:32-40)

That is my God, that is your God. And if you find it hard to relate to that, because you feel… ‘well, that was the Israelites in Bible times, not me’. I beg to differ, because you have one thing in common with them – You serve the same God. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Just think about the wonderful promises we have as Christians today. Here is just one of them:

“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)