The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. -- The 23rd Psalm
There. The promise of a mind at peace...I shall not want.
The essential part of that sentence, the Lord is my shepherd, promises that it is with the Lord as our shepherd that we shall not want. Too often "we shall not want" is the attention-getter. When we fully recognize that the Lord is our shepherd, we are moved to the "not wanting" part. We realize just what "I shall not want" means, i.e., we have enough, and we shall never not have enough with the Lord as our shepherd.
We are not promised more than enough...we will never need more than enough, we have enough. Point of fact, we have had more than enough and found it to be not enough.
Enough, then, is our pearl beyond price. And our spiritual lesson comes to life...we must prove the words we speak or they are just so many words making noise.
We have enough, so we not just can but we must freely give: From our hands and our feet, from our heart and our soul...and from the natural mind's first, money, made last, our money.
We give because we want to...never to get, but to give.
We must go beyond reason to love. -- Thaddeus Golas
Thank you.
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