It’s one thing for your car to not start. It’s another thing for it to not start even after you change the battery. It’s a whole other thing to have it start once you change the battery, only for the dashboard to light up like a Christmas Tree full of warning lights and then die on your way to the mechanic.

We come to the portion of Psalm 23 where the road goes dark, and the valley is full of dread. Yet the psalmist knows hope is still to be found even when circumstances don’t change. Because our shepherd is still with us.