Christ is Risen! Alleluia!
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
As we gather to celebrate confirmation, and then to celebrate the Lord's Supper today, it is especially fitting that our psalm for today is one of special thanksgiving for our Lord's guidance and provision. In the words of Psalm 23, David teaches us about the gifts our Lord gives to us, and how He sustains us in faith and life through all our days.
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” With these words, David confesses what Jesus tells us in today's Gospel lesson – He is the Good Shepherd who provides for the needs of His sheep. Here we learn and confess that God our heavenly Father provides for us in all our needs of body and soul, just as surely as He has created us and all our members and senses. He gives you and me all that we need, daily and richly takes care of us, and guards and defends us from all kinds of evil.
