I firmly believe that several brilliant minds could easily devote their lives seeking to understand and unpack all of the rich meaning that is bound up in the name of our Great God...Yahweh! I will confess and say that as I look back at the few posts on Yahweh...I believe that they are accurate, but they don't even begin to scratch the surface!
In Psalm 23 the first five words should move the child of God to fall prostrate on the ground and be filled with awe, wonder, praise and worship! This is astounding and breathtaking news, this is really good news...Yahweh is my Shepherd! Yahweh, all that is bound up in who HE is, HE is my Shepherd. I'm afraid that these precious words are so familiar to us that we take them for granted..."The LORD is my shepherd; there is nothing I lack." We have heard them so many times we do not hear or understand the phenomenal meaning loaded in these few words...this is astounding!
One thing about a shepherd, they stay close to their sheep and the wise sheep stay close to their shepherd for protection and guidance. Check out Psalm 32:8, we see that Yahweh "will instruct you and show you the way to go; with My eye on you, I will give counsel." You must be physically close and personally intimate to be able to be directed by their eye! Oh how I long to stay close enough physically and spiritually to be able to be directed by HIS eye.
I encourage you to read and reread John 10...Jesus tells us about the relationship HE, Yahweh, has with HIS sheep. In Matt 11:28-29 28 we hear Yahweh tell us to, “Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves."
In John 10 HE tells us that HIS sheep know HIS voice and they follow HIM. The question that is screaming out in my heart and mind is do you know HIS voice? Do you know HIS voice? Run to the lover of your soul, run to the guardian and shepherd of your soul, flee to the only one that can save you and give you rest, true rest. Peter states it well in 1 Peter 2:25, "For you were like sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls."
The awestriking, breathtaking and astounding thing about Jesus, our Good Shepherd is that HE laid down HIS life and shed HIS blood for HIS sheep...seek HIS face, pursue HIM, HE and HE alone is the great treasure!
The LORD is my Shepherd...GLORY!