The Lord is our Shepherd
It is believed that King David ,also known as the shepherd king, wrote psalms 23 to express his feelings after his son Absalom tried to become king. David ran away after his son 's attempt to become king and found refuge with a shepherd called Barzillai and began to reflect on God’s loving kindness and guidance. In Psalms 23 David describes himself and the people of God as sheep. As well connects to both the new testament and the old making it one of the most simplistic and beloved Scriptures in the Bible. David uses his personal life as a shepherd to describe God’s relationship with the people. However, God being a shepherd isn’t new in the bible; Just like shepherds God tends to the needs of his people; God has a direct connection to his people. Though most people today aren’t shepherds Psalms 23 is still very relatable in this time. …show more content…
In Israel shepherds were looked down on: they were dirty, slept with the live animals ,and only interacted with the lambs yet, Hebrew ancestors such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Rachel were in fact shepherds and Jesus is a direct descendant of King David. descriptions of God being a shepherd can be found in from Genesis,”...From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:” Gen.49:24 KJV. This is significant because Jacob describes God as a shepherd early on in the bible and David keeps to this. God is described as a shepherd again in the new testament "for the Lamb in the center of the throne shall be their shepherd and shall guide them to springs of the water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from their eye.” Rev.7:17. This connects both the old and new testament together more closely, and depicts God as humble and with the people at all times this brings him closer to the
It is believed that King David ,also known as the shepherd king, wrote psalms 23 to express his feelings after his son Absalom tried to become king. David ran away after his son 's attempt to become king and found refuge with a shepherd called Barzillai and began to reflect on God’s loving kindness and guidance. In Psalms 23 David describes himself and the people of God as sheep. As well connects to both the new testament and the old making it one of the most simplistic and beloved Scriptures in the Bible. David uses his personal life as a shepherd to describe God’s relationship with the people. However, God being a shepherd isn’t new in the bible; Just like shepherds God tends to the needs of his people; God has a direct connection to his people. Though most people today aren’t shepherds Psalms 23 is still very relatable in this time. …show more content…
In Israel shepherds were looked down on: they were dirty, slept with the live animals ,and only interacted with the lambs yet, Hebrew ancestors such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Rachel were in fact shepherds and Jesus is a direct descendant of King David. descriptions of God being a shepherd can be found in from Genesis,”...From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:” Gen.49:24 KJV. This is significant because Jacob describes God as a shepherd early on in the bible and David keeps to this. God is described as a shepherd again in the new testament "for the Lamb in the center of the throne shall be their shepherd and shall guide them to springs of the water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from their eye.” Rev.7:17. This connects both the old and new testament together more closely, and depicts God as humble and with the people at all times this brings him closer to the