Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for September 8, 2024

Series on Psalms For Sonburst

Comprehensive Care

Psalms 23:1-6

This beloved Psalm has comforted countless pilgrims in this life. Since the LORD, who lacks nothing, cares for those who lack everything, satisfy yourself in Him as the Shepherd of your soul.

1. Comprehensive Care Means No Lack 1-3

• first five words: intimacy and exclusivity
• sufficiency, refreshment and renewal: for the sake of His name

2. Comprehensive Care Means No Fear 4

• protective tools
• scouting the landscape of your life

3. Comprehensive Care Means No End 5-6

• overflowing certainty
• pursuing His sheep with goodness and mercy

4. Comprehensive Care Means No Other

• connection to Christ: the supreme Shepherd (John 10) and sacrificial Lamb
• the rest of the story: Psalm 22:27; Rev. 7

5. So What?

• the only hope for wayward sheep: a watchful and sacrificing Shepherd
• “The King of Love my Shepherd is, whose goodness fails me never. I nothing lack if I am His and He is mine forever…Perverse and foolish I have strayed, but in His love He sought me, and on His shoulder gently laid and home, rejoicing, brought me.” (Baker, “The King of Love My Shepherd Is”)