The 23rd Psalm is the most famous Psalm in the world. Sometimes familiarity can not only breed contempt but can blind us to the presence of things we should have seen. For many, the 23rd Psalm has brought comfort at funerals or memorial services but I believe this Psalm has more than just comfort to give us.

Christians are people who rely on God’s promises. We have never seen God or touched God, but we know Him and that through the Word of His promises. Some have counted the promises in the Bible and come up with 3583! That is a lot of promises!!!! As we rejoice and rely upon God’s promises, it is very easy to become one dimensional in our grasp of God’s promises. Let me illustrate. How do we see God’s promises? For the most part, don’t we view and embrace them for what they give to us?

For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if only you would hear his voice. Psalm 95:3-7

Moses spent 40 years in the desert before God raised him up to lead Israel out of Egypt. As soon as God delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt he took them into the desert. David did a lot of desert time hiding out from Saul before God made him king. ?And the Spirit drove Jesus into the desert after his baptism for 40 days.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

should consider saying yes:

You Help Other People. When you say yes and try new things, you give others the courage to do the same, says Carducci. “ ...

You Boost Your Brainpower. ...

You Slow Down The Aging Process. ...

You Better Your Career. ...

You Have Less Regret. ...

You Become Happier.

The miracle of the resurrection, described in the Bible, is the most important miracle of the Christian faith. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the first Easter morning, he showed people that the hope he proclaimed in his Gospel message was real, and so was God's power at work in the world, believers say.

Every year on Good Friday, Christians take time to meditate on the depth of Jesus’ sacrifice for us in suffering a humiliating, bloody death by crucifixion. It’s a time to dwell on what Jesus suffered for us, in all its pain and intensity, without rushing straight ahead to the good news of Easter, resurrection, and new life.

Children of the heav?nly Father

Safely in His bosom gather

Nestling bird nor star in Heaven

Such a refuge e?er was given

God, His own doth tend and nourish

In His holy courts they flourish

From all evil things He spares them

In His mighty arms He bears them

Neither life nor death shall ever

From the Lord, His children sever

Unto them His grace He showeth

And their sorrows all He knoweth

When God called Moses, he had actually chosen a strong candidate to be Israel’s deliverer.

For the previous 40 years, Moses had led sheep through the very wilderness God wanted Israel to escape through. That meant he knew the terrain, the mountain passes, and the watering holes. As a herder of sheep, he knew something about managing unruly crowds. And, as a former son of Pharaoh, he had learned how to read and write legal documents and set up a government. The burning bush should have been Moses’ Karate Kid moment, where he finally saw how all of his preparation would pay off.