You restore my soul !

Wednesday January 19, 2022

You restore my soul !

Psalms 23.3 – He revives my strength, and, for the honor of his name, he leads me step by step on the right path.

The Hebrew text, the language in which our psalm was written, is very rich and the same word contains several ideas. The Good Shepherd revives my strength but another version says : "He restores my soul". David thereby expresses the center of the personality, the deepest of the heart, the intimate being that ultimately only God knows perfectly. Rarely, if not never, do we show this intimate being in broad daylight and we build our relationships mask to mask. We know very well that we are fragile there and that to open this place of our heart is to put ourselves in danger. However, and this is what is tragic, we all want to be discovered in this aspect in order to finally be free, but the fear of rejection, mockery or trampling means that since our early childhood, we have decided to do good figure.

I do not know if a human being could assume this discovery of our intimate being but what is certain is that the Lord of glory can. Not only can He, but already He reads in us as in an open book. When He comes into our "secret garden", He restores us, He revives our strength, He makes us a person balanced in his emotions. Because He is God, because He honors his name which contains all the attributes of his person, He leads us step by step on the path of deliverance and freedom. Finally we know who we are through the eyes of the Good Shepherd, his truth about our lives is the only thing that is real. Neither the gaze of others nor what I think they think of me will help me free myself ! Only my Shepherd can bring me into the full liberating light.

Have a good day.

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