When I started 2020, I was convinced that the Lord was leading me to focus on Psalm 23 for the year (for more on that story, check out my post from January 1). Throughout the year, the Psalm has been a source of encouragement.
Then, my father-in-law passed away in October. At his memorial service, the pastor used Psalm 23 on the bulletin (pictured above)! So, our focus on the final verse is especially encouraging, as I consider “Pop”—as our kids called him—“dwelling in the house of the Lord forever.”
As Dr. Robert McQuilkin wrote, “When a believer dies, his spirit is so instantaneously in the presence of the Lord that he may feel with Paul that he knows not whether he is in the body or out of the body” (2 Corinthians 12:1-4).
Click here for more on the last verse of Psalm 23 from Philip Keller, Robert Morgan, and Max Lucado