The Shepherd Walked Into the Courtroom Before We Did
There are some passages of Scripture that seem to stay with us throughout our entire lives. We hear them as children sitting in church beside our parents, we memorize them in Sunday school, and we hear them again at funerals when people are searching for comfort. Because they're so familiar, it's easy to think we already know everything they have to teach us. Psalm 23 was one of those passages for me. I had read it countless times over the years and always found it comforting, but if I'm honest, I don't think I truly understood its depth until life became difficult enough that those words were no longer just Scripture I admired. They became words I desperately needed. It's amazing how differently we read the Bible after we've walked through hardship. Verses that once seemed familiar suddenly come alive because they meet us exactly where we are. They stop being stories about someone else's faith and begin speaking directly into our own circumstances. Looking...