‘You Are With Me’

‘You Are With Me’

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psalm 23:4

David had a well-formed theology which was powerfully practical.  Throughout his life, from his encounters with the lion, the bear, Goliath, and a host of enemies, he often passed through ‘the valley of the shadow of death.’  By the grace of God, he survived all those encounters.  Ultimately, David came to the place, as an old man, when he took his final walk through, ‘the valley of the shadow of death.’  This ‘walk’ would only end in one way.  Like all those who had gone before him, he would die.  Yet the same promise of the Presence of Christ, His Shepherd, held good in that last hour as it had in all the other passages.  It is even so for us.  Many of us have walked ‘through the valley of the shadow of death.’  We have found ourselves threatened by circumstances well beyond our control, which had they varied only slightly, would have been the end of life.  Through all those, Christ has been as good as His Word.  He has been with us, as our Shepherd in ‘the valley of the shadow of death.’  Eventually, like David, we will come to the valley one last time.  For us, Christ will be as good as His Word.  He, who has walked with us every step of the way, will give us the sense of His Presence in the last hour, He has been with us, is with us now, and will be with us as we take our last walk through the Valley.

Our most Kind and Loving Savior,
we rejoice that You walk with us through the valley of the shadow of death.
We praise You, that when we take our final journey,
that You will be with us then, as You have been, every step of the way.

 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning