Your Rod And Staff Comfort Me

Shepherds of the time commonly carried a rod and staff as essential to their work.

Your rod and staff comfort me. Psalm 44 19 though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. Yes though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil. We need not fear anything.

Your rod and your staff they comfort me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me as we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we fear no evil because the lord jesus our good shepherd is watching over each and every step we take. Continuing with this we can learn something very interesting about david s analogy of god as his shepherd.

He is guiding us looking for us among the cliffs when we wander reaching out with the staff pulling us back in the way. The staff was a guiding tool with a hook on one end to secure a sheep around its chest. God acknowledges that there is something to fear and yet in that context he tells us not to fear.

Psalm 23 4 web i started to think on all the times we are reminded not to fear and how the instruction is never given in the absence of a fear stimulus. Psalm 23 4 addressing the lord shepherd says your rod and your staff they comfort me david bases this description on the practices of shepherds in his day. Your rod and your staff they comfort me psalm 23 4 recently one of the disc jockeys at a local christian radio station was praying on the air during one of the station s.

Your rod and your staff they comfort me. And what is the lord s rod and the lord s staff. The lord s rod and the lord s staff comforts us.

For you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me psalm 23 4b my previous writings on this verse explored god s everlasting presence with us. The rod and staff can be broadly categorized as tools of protection and guidance respectively.