Your Rod And Your Staff Comfort Me
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Your rod and your staff comfort me. Thy rod and thy staff comfort me sermon at midland heights seventh day adventist church duration. Only the two tools together provided comfort to the sheep. Your rod and your staff they comfort me psalm 23 4b my previous writings on this verse explored god s everlasting presence with us.
Psalm 44 19 though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. This is significant because david is talking about the lord s rod and the lord s staff. 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. 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. Shepherds of the time commonly carried a rod and staff as essential to their work.
Without these two instruments the flock will be severely in danger. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me psalm 23 4.
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. The rod and staff are essential tools of work for every responsible shepherd. We need not fear anything.
Continuing with this we can learn something very interesting about david s analogy of god as his shepherd. The rod warded off predators. In psalm 23 4 david isn t talking about just a rod and a staff he says your rod and your staff they comfort me.