We are living in dark days, but the God who is all light watches over his own.

He sees through the shadows and he can see us through the most difficult seasons of life.

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. And today on enjoying the journey,

Scott Pauli is walking us through one of the most famous and familiar scriptures, Psalm 23,

to help us get a fresh glimpse of the shepherd in the shadows. Let's join the study now in God's word.

When I ask you, Let's join the study now in God's Word.

When I ask people what their favorite psalm is, the number one answer that I hear is Psalm 23,

and it is an amazing Psalm. Maybe it's your favorite. If not, maybe it's one of your favorites.

Maybe it'll become your favorite after this study. It is one, though, I must tell you personally, that is at this juncture in my life just beginning, really, I think, to open up to me. Isn't that funny? We

committed to memory as children. I learned Psalm 23. It's only six verses long when I was just a boy.

When I started preaching as a teenager, it was one of the first passages I ever preached from.

I remember as a teenager preaching from Psalm 23.

And I read and studied and dug and found so many wonderful nuggets and truths.

But some things you have to live to learn.

And truthfully, after some experience in life, some scripture starts opening up to you more

and more because you say, ah, I understand that now.

I see that now.

Well, I really feel like at this time in my own experience with the Lord, Psalm 23 is

coming to mean more and more to me. And my prayer is that through our study, not only will the

Psalm mean more to you, the Lord will mean more to you. Remember, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

Now the Psalm, though it's only six verses long, really divides itself into two parts.

And maybe this will help you to remember the breakdown of Psalm 23 and the truth that we're going to study.

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