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Informationen zum Autor Tony Evans is president of The Urban Alternative and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of numerous books, including God Is Up to Something Great and Oneness Embraced . Evans and his wife, Lois, have four children. Klappentext Rediscover one of the most beloved passages of Scripture-the 23rd Psalm-and the God who is more than enough to meet all your needs.The Lord is my Shepherd; I Shall Not Want.More than a lovely poem, Psalm 23 confronts distress and anxiety, fear and uncertainty, showing that if the Lord is your Shepherd, you can be confident in all the frightening circumstances of your life. In this book, Dr. Tony Evans explains how your worries will melt away as you trust God to meet your spiritual, directional, emotional, physical, and eternal needs. When your spiritual energy is drained, He'll lead you to refreshment. When you're confused by the world around you, God will guide you onto the right path.When your life seems threatened by forces outside your control, God promises His protection. No matter how things appear, your Good Shepherd is constantly at work on your behalf, and you can rely fully on His goodness and mercy all the days of your life. The Basic Question Just Who Is Your Shepherd? Right there in the opening line of Psalm 23, we find the essence and climax and consummation of what the whole psalm is about: “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.” But immediately a problem reveals itself in our reaction to these well-known words from David. While everybody likes part two of the verse—naturally we want our wants and needs provided for—many of us would just as soon skip part one, the bothersome part about making the Lord our Shepherd. So my simple question for you is this: I’m assuming the Lord is your Savior, but is He also your Shepherd? In other words, do you want the promise of the second half of verse 1 bad enough to get the first half right? I assure you that you’ll be better prepared to answer that question after we take a closer look at each word in this brief opening phrase of this most famous psalm and we experience the deep and true encouragement to be found there. “The Lord...” First of all, David identifies his Shepherd as “the Lord.” What does David really mean by that name? The Hebrew word for “Lord” in this verse is Yahweh. That’s God’s formal name, and it takes us back to Exodus 3, where God was leading Moses into a tough situation that was too big for him to handle. On that occasion, God revealed to Moses that His name is “I Am That I Am.” That’s Yahweh, the same “Lord” that David talks about. What kind of name is this? If Yahweh the Lord is the one who meets all our needs, we really do need to know and understand His name. “I Am That I Am” conveys first of all God’s selfexistence. He’s the eternally existent One. God exists because God exists. He isn’t defined by anything outside Himself. His existence is wrapped up in His existence; the total circumference of who God is within God Himself. Therefore God is also self-sufficient. He depends on nothing outside Himself in order to be God. He is sustained by Himself, which means He is of necessity consistent with Himself. When I’m cold, I need a coat. When I’m hungry, I need food. When I’m sick, I need a doctor. I have to go outside myself to have my needs met. But not God, because all that He requires, He is. What this means practically is that God has what no one in all creation has: an eternally unchangeable nature. God will always be as He is now and as He reveals Himself to be, because “I Am That I Am.” God is the same yesterday and today and tomorrow. His essential nature does not change because it cannot change, because it’s defined by His own internal reality that needs nothing outside Himself. You...
