Yes, we as God’s children, as His spiritual offspring, as His mortal heirs of all that He has, is, or ever shall be–yes, we are walking down a long road to get to his Celestial City.
And it is a tough, lonely road at times, fraught with danger and temptation. Our great poet/prophet/King David knew of the perils of this walk we are on. “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…” (Psalm 23:4). Here he places the very road we must travel directly through a valley, which is a low place where death’s shadow casts its silhouette on our every step.
David wrote from experience, for King Saul hounded him and sought to kill him and persecuted him at every turn. He knew that we humans were as “blades of grass,” fragile vapors strutting upon the earth, one heartbeat away from returning to dust, one fickle captain’s word from being so much cannon fodder. For David was a “bloody man,” who saw the fruit of war lie in crimson pools in those valleys of death. And he saw there “the dead burying the dead.”
And so it is with us. We are beset by injustices and inequities in this life, and at times we throw our hands up, and then…we should do what King David did. In our darker hours of need, we should say to God, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.” You are with us, and You “will never leave us nor forsake us.” Kenneth Wayne Hancock
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