“For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth” (Psalm 71:5).
Psalm 71
T he veteran sheep herder, W. Phillip Keller, speaks tenderly from the heart of a shepherd as he describes a lamb who has been “cast down” in a helpless position on his back with his four legs extended skyward and unable to right himself. The animal will soon die due to lack of circulation and the pressure of built up gas. The patient care that the shepherd gives to the helpless lamb, as the lamb is carefully righted onto its feet and its legs are gently caressed for circulation to be restored, is a pleasant reminder of how God, our Shepherd, reaches out to His sheep when we are brokenhearted and crushed in spirit.
