{"id":9588,"date":"2025-04-16T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9588"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:40:37","slug":"this-psalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"This Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-161-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1480\" style=\"width:533px;height:400px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-161-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/12-30-15-161-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  This is good scripture!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  I have more scripture I want to talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from the book God&#8217;s Psychiatry by Charles Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Psalm of David has sung its way across the barriers of time, race, and language.  For twenty-five centuries it has been treasured in the hearts of people.  Today it is more beloved than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reason it lives?  Not just because it is great literature.  Because it tells that above all the strife and fears, the hungers and weaknesses of mankind, there is a Shepherd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Shepherd who knows his sheep one by one, who is abundantly able to provide, who guides and protects and at the close of the day opens the door to the sheepfold&#8211;the house not made with hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the quietness of the South Pole Admiral Byrd suddenly realized he was &#8220;not alone.&#8221;  That assurance caused faith to well up within him, and even though he stood in &#8220;the coldest cold on the face of the earth,&#8221; he felt a comforting warmth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Twenty-third Psalm gives men that same assurance.  That is why it lives in the hearts of men, regardless of race or creed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. Genesis 41:48 (KJV).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: This is good scripture! Me: I have more scripture I want to talk about. This is from the book God&#8217;s Psychiatry by Charles Allen This Psalm of David has sung its way across the barriers of time, race, and language. For twenty-five centuries it has been treasured in the hearts of people. 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