Greetings!

This week, our promise is in Psalm 23:1, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want" Some versions say, "I lack nothing." I think I like that better, because when we make the Lord the head of our lives, we will lack nothing. We may "want" some things...but nothing we really need.

For some reason, thinking abut this promise made me think about friendships, and how even through the Lord is a friend "at all times," He has made us to need each other. The Bible says, 'A threefold cord is not easily broken. "We can't handle this world alone, and we weren't meant to. We grow, and are strengthened through our relationships with one another.

I thank God for the people He places in our paths. Those people who hold us up, and pray for us. Those people you can lean on in good times and bad times. I think God has given everyone at least one “ride or die” friend. That friend that won’t co-sign your foolishness, but they will be there when you need them. I believe that is one of God’s gifts to us.

I thank Him also because He leads us and guides us and sometimes He even hides us. He keeps us in spite of us.  We may make mistakes, but it is good to know that God doesn’t hold them against us. In Psalm 103:12, it says that God remembers our sins no more, "As far as the east is from the west." That means that whatever we have done even the things we may do in the future...we are forgiven. We can't let the enemy mess with our minds. God loves us, and every day He gives us new mercy, new hope, new grace, and a new beginning...

Until next time...

Be blessed