I Shall Not Want

The Comparison

David names both shepherd and not want together here, worth examining this direct connection, this specific relationship named as the actual, sufficient reason this described lack of want is genuinely true, worth holding as this movement’s own needed foundation for the contentment this whole book pursues.

This is worth applying against however much your own wanting has felt entirely disconnected from your own actual relationship with God as shepherd, rather than this psalm’s own direct claim, this relationship itself the genuine, actual reason for contentment, worth trusting this connection as genuinely, practically true.

Notice this is stated with confident, present certainty, I shall not want, not merely hoped for future possibility, worth holding as genuine, actual claim, worth examining whether your own experience has matched this confident certainty, or whether want has, honestly, continued despite this professed relationship.

Consider today this psalm’s own direct connection, shepherd, therefore not want, and examine honestly whether your own trust in God as genuine shepherd has actually produced this described contentment, or whether deepening this relationship might be what your own persistent wanting genuinely requires.