” I shall not want” follows immediately after, “The Lord is my shepherd.” Psalms 23:1. The definition of want in this sense is to lack, to fail, to lessen, to be lacking. During the time that David was a fugitive running for His life, there were times when food itself was a challenge to come by. We read this in the book of I Samuel. In this we see David understood by experience what it was like to have times of great need. But in all this his testimony is, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
We live in a day of great need, yes right here in America. In one year alone in this nation, about 64,000 people died of drug overdoses. In one state alone, about 4000 people died of overdose. This was in one year’s time.
I heard just yesterday the story from a father who lost his son to drug overdose. It seems this overdose was not intentional. He took one pill, not realizing it was laced with a deadly drug. One pill killed him and that unexpectedly. He left a greatly, grieving family.
This does not need to happen to you or to me. But we need the Good Shepherd to keep us from want, lack, even wrong desires or reaching for the wrong remedy.
Let There Be Life 