Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - Tender Care: I Shall Not Want

Day 2: I shall not want

The Eternal is my Shepherd, He cares for me always (Psalm 23:1 – VOICE).

“I shall not want.”

I might want otherwise, but when the Lord is my Shepherd He is able to supply my needs, and He is certainly willing to do so, for His heart is full of love, and therefore “I shall not want.” I shall not lack for temporal things. Does He not feed the ravens, and cause the lilies to grow? How, then, can He leave his children to starve?

I shall not want for spirituals. I know that His grace will be sufficient for me. Resting in Him He will say to me, “As thy day so shall thy strength be.” I may not possess all that I wish for, but “I shall not want.” Others, far wealthier and wiser than I, may want, but “I shall not.” “The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.”

It is not only “I do not want,” but “I shall not want.” Come what may, if famine should devastate the land, or calamity destroy the city, “I shall not want.” Old age with its feebleness shall not bring me any lack, and even death with its gloom shall not find me destitute.

I have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because “The Lord is my shepherd.”

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~ Psalm 23 ~ 1866

Be not dismayed whate’er betide,

God will take care of you;

Beneath His wings of love abide,