Psalm 23: New Living Translation

Every Psalm that I have read thus far has shown me more and more about God’s grace and how we must give him praise every single day. Not just because of the sole fact that he is our Creator but, because every day each and every one of us go through so many things and he is always there for us no matter what. He is the only one who chooses between giving us life and death, and he is the only one who continuously shows us grace above all else. In Psalm 23:1 “The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need” (New Living Translation). This means that I do not need anything else because God is all that I need and within him I have everything. He is the one to fulfil my every need and knows my heart so it would only make sense that he is the only …show more content…
When he comes, if I am not ready, I will not be able to enter Gods holy place and in reality, in all honesty that I where I want to be. So I need to work hard and find the Lord and work on myself through him.
Even though there are more than one meanings for the phrase “my rest” as stated by Kidner “My rest is pregnant with more than one meaning…” (Kidner, 1973, pg. 378.). I believe that for everyone God has made the word for them to understand it in their own way. Hence, the reason I believe that his resting place could be his holy place above. Either way, what really matters is that he said that the people will never enter his resting place; to think of not being able to enter anything that is holy from God would be