{"id":2875,"date":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-is-my-shepherd-i-have-all-that-i-need-psalm-231\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","slug":"the-lord-is-my-shepherd-i-have-all-that-i-need-psalm-231","status":"publish","type":"oyb","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/oyb\/the-lord-is-my-shepherd-i-have-all-that-i-need-psalm-231","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Lord is my shepherd; I have all that I need&#8221; (Psalm 23:1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Davidic psalm is so well known in the KJV that it&#8217;s difficult to read it any other version (&#8220;&#8230;I shall not want.&#8221;). Yet, as comforting as the familiar KJV verse is, sometimes it&#8217;s helpful to read it in another version to help unpack its meaning. Here, the NLT reading caused me to focus on the Lord as my shepherd more than my wants\/needs. In other words, all my true and deepest needs are satisfied in the Lord Himself. I still prefer the beautiful KJV for most of my memorization work, but occasionally another version causes me to see Scripture afresh. Here&#8217;s my paraphrase as a result of today&#8217;s reading: &#8220;I have the Lord as my shepherd, so what else could I possibly need?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Davidic psalm is so well known in the KJV that it&#8217;s difficult to read it any other version (&#8220;&#8230;I shall not want.&#8221;). Yet, as comforting as the familiar KJV verse is, sometimes it&#8217;s helpful to read it in another version to help unpack its meaning. Here, the NLT reading caused me to focus on the Lord as my shepherd more than my wants\/needs. In other words, all my true and deepest needs are satisfied in the Lord Himself. I still prefer the beautiful KJV for most of my memorization work, but occasionally another version causes me to see Scripture afresh. Here&#8217;s my paraphrase as a result of today&#8217;s reading: &#8220;I have the Lord as my shepherd, so what else could I possibly need?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"scripture-book":[1286],"scripture-chapter":[1356],"oyb_day":[1554],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2875","oyb","type-oyb","status-publish","hentry","scripture-book-psalms","scripture-chapter-1356","oyb_day-january-28"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb\/2875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oyb"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"oyb_day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oyb_day?post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}