Monday; May 7
One of the all- time favorite passages in the Bible is Psalm 23. The 23rd Psalm is an encouraging passage for just about every aspect of life. Through the years, one of my favorite verses in this poem is v. 4, ”Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”. When I think about this passage, I imagine walking through a deep, dark valley filled with all kinds of evil and scary stuff. If I were to enter this valley on my own, I know that I would feel apprehensive at best and scared to death at worst. In fact, I might even be so afraid of what awaited me, I might not enter the valley. Yet, with the thought of the All-Powerful God walking through with me, not only am I willing to go, I am confident in the journey. In fact, my approach to traversing the valley is summed up in the confidence of Paul, “If God is for us, who is against us?” (Romans 8:31). We live in a world that is filled with