I love this Psalm. Everyone knows this Psalm like they know “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue”… As I read this again….I thought…what a great shepherd. Shepherds give stability, they love, they guide, they feed and they also correct.
As parents we are to do all these things as well. We would be really bad parents if we didn’t discipline our children …and yes, there should be pain involved. Not necessarily physical pain…but I have always been a big fan of a nice swift swat on the butt.
But the connection I’ve heard made before is the ‘rod’ that comforts in the 23rd Psalm…is the rod of discipline. As parents, if we love our children…we are to correct loving with the rod of discipline. We’ve all heard “Spare the rod, spoil the child” the bible say we not only spoil them…we hate them.
Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.
We know that God disciplines those that he loves…
Hebrews 12:6 because the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes everyone he accepts as a son.
So its that discipline that comforts David in Psalm 23. When we are being disciplined….take heart, God loves us too much to let us continue in sin.
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