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    Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23 (a 30-Day Devotional)
    Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23 (a 30-Day Devotional)
    Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23 (a 30-Day Devotional)
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    Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23 (a 30-Day Devotional)

    By Max Lucado

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    Psalm 23 provides words of comfort and inspiration to readers needing hope to persevere through life’s daily challenges. 

    This 30-day devotional from New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado will teach you how to:

    • Release your burdens
    • Cast away your fears
    • Find security with the Good Shepherd

    This month long devotional:

    • Is a great gift for a loved one going through a difficult season, or a friend needing an encouraging pick-me-up
    • Has beautiful four-color photography
    • Is the perfect size to carry in your purse, travel bag, or place on your nightstand

    Safe in the Shepherd’s Arms is a reliable source of safety and security from Psalm 23. Max Lucado describes this Psalm as “written by a shepherd who became a king – because He wanted us to know about a King who became a shepherd.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 31, 2010
    ISBN9781418580346
    Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23 (a 30-Day Devotional)
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    Max Lucado

    Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast

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      Safe in the Shepherd's Arms - Max Lucado

      INTRODUCTION

      C

      OME TO ME, God invites, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28 NLT).

      If we let him, God will lighten our loads… but how do we let him? May I invite an old friend to show us? The Twenty-third Psalm.

      The LORD is my shepherd;

      I shall not want.

      He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

      He leads me beside the still waters.

      He restores my soul;

      He leads me in the paths of righteousness

      For His name’s sake.

      Yea, though I walk through the valley of the

      shadow of death,

      I will fear no evil;

      For You are with me;

      Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

      You prepare a table before me

      in the presence of my enemies;

      You anoint my head with oil;

      My cup runs over.

      Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

      All the days of my life;

      And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever. (NKJV)

      Do more beloved words exist? Framed and hung in hospital rooms, scratched on prison walls, quoted by the young, and whispered by the dying. In these lines, sailors have found a harbor, the frightened have found a father, and strugglers have found a friend.

      And because the passage is so deeply loved, it is widely known. Can you find ears on which these words have never fallen? Set to music in a hundred songs, translated into a thousand tongues, domiciled in a million hearts.

      One of those hearts might be yours.

      MAX LUCADO

      THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

      THE PSALMIST REJOICED TO SAY, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, AND IN SO DOING HE PROUDLY IMPLIED, I AM HIS SHEEP.

      W

      HY DID DAVID WRITE the Twenty-third Psalm? To build our trust in God… to remind us of who he is. Yahweh—an unchanging God, an uncaused God, and an ungoverned God.

      When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor resided on the first floor. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher’s apartment and ask the same question, Well, what’s the good news? The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of the wheelchair, and say, That’s middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C.¹

      You and I need a middle C. Haven’t you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes. You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of the Pacific. Yahweh is our middle C. A still point in a turning world. Don’t we need a still point? Don’t we need an unchanging shepherd?

      We equally need an uncaused shepherd. No one breathed life into Yahweh. No one sired him. No one gave birth to him. No one caused him. No act brought him forth.

      Though he creates, God was never created. Though he makes, he was never made. Though he causes, he was never caused. Hence the psalmist’s proclamation: Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God (Psalm 90:2 NIV).

      God doesn’t check the weather; he makes it. He doesn’t defy gravity; he created it.

      God—our Shepherd—doesn’t check the weather; he makes it. He doesn’t defy gravity; he created it. He isn’t affected by health; he has no body. Jesus said, God is spirit (John 4:24). Since he has no body, he has no limitations—equally active in Cambodia as he is in Connecticut. Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? asked David. Where can I run from you? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I lie down in the grave, you are there (Psalm 139:7–8).

      Since no act brought him

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