You're listening to the Bad Ready Bible study. My name is Aaron McManus, and I'm here with my dad,

Erwin Raphael McManus. How are you doing today, Dad? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Can't wait to

dive in. We're on day three of Psalm 23. I'm going to read the verses before so we can kind of have a

little refresher. In Psalm 1, it starts, the Lord is my shepherd. I lack nothing.

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters. He refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right paths for his namesake. I'm going to read verse 3 one more time.

He refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his namesake. I'm going to read verse three one more time. He refreshes my soul.

He guides me along the right paths for his namesake.

There's an interesting transition here.

He begins by saying he refreshes my soul, which you have to remember the context of David's life.

You know, David was a shepherd, then a warrior.

Then, what's the word when someone's running for their life? And a fugitive. Yeah, because he went from shepherd to

warrior to fugitive to king. And when he says God refreshes his soul, it wasn't in the context of life being easy.

It was in the context of a very turbulent, difficult, unexpected life. I mean, he went from the life

of a shepherd and to now this turbulent king who's looked at his life and even as king things have gone

well things have gone badly he's made great choices he's made terrible choices and David's

having to live with that inner turmoil in his own life so when he makes that statement

he refreshes my soul it's this continuous refreshing of a soul that becomes thirsty. And that is the

unique feature of David. The Bible says that David was a man after God's own heart. He had a lot of

flaws. He had a lot of imperfections. He made a lot of mistakes.

And he made catastrophic choices, not just minor ones, but massively destructive choices.

But what was different about David was that he always returned to God.

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