A New Psalm

My kindergarten class' Bible time has been focused recently on the life of David. Our Bible time usually starts out with me going over the lesson, telling the story, showing pictures (if available) and lastly, if the story is covered in the children's Bible that I have, I read the story again and the students get to see the pictures. Let me preface this with saying that I absolutely love this book- it's called "The Jesus Storybook Bible" and under the title is written, "Every story whispers his name." And it does. The stories are written beautifully. And they are all centered around the Rescue Plan that God has in store for his people- sending his son Jesus to die on the cross to save us from the punishment we deserve. Beautiful really doesn't cover it all. I really can't think of any other way to describe it, so I'll stop here. But really, you should check it out.

So as I was reading the story of David and Goliath (even though we talked about this last week), I noticed the next story was also about David and his writing of the Psalms. Since this week we are memorizing the first verse of Psalm 23, I thought I would go ahead and read this story to them as well. At the end of the story, Psalm 23 has been translated into 'kid-friendly' language, and since I'm a kid-at-heart, I thought I would share that part:

God is my Shepherd
And I am his little lamb.

He feeds me
He guides me
He looks after me.
I have everything I need.

Inside, my heart is very quiet.
As quiet as lying still in soft green grass
In a meadow
By a little stream.

Even when I walk through
the dark, scary, lonely places
I won't be afraid
Because my Shepherd knows where I am.

He is here with me
He keeps me safe
He rescues me

He makes me strong
And brave.
By: Sally Lloyd-Jones

I needed that. "I have everything I need." "My Shepherd knows where I am." "He rescues me." "He makes me strong." "I am his little lamb." I hope that encourages you as much as it did me.