House of God, Forever

Normally I avoid Psalm 23 – it’s overused, the cliché, God is with me so everything’s peachy psalm. I’m much more a Psalm 22 girl – you know “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” and all that. (Though really you can’t have one without the other.)

But Psalm 23 has been speaking to me more recently. Especially the way Jon Foreman wrote it in his song “House of God, Forever”

God is my shepherd
I won’t be wanting
I won’t be wanting
He makes me rest
In fields of green
With quiet streams

Even though I walk
Through the valley
Of death and dying
I will not fear
‘Cause you are with me
You’re always with me.

The shepherd staff
Comforts me
You are my feast
In the presence of enemy
Surely goodness
Will follow me
Follow me
In the house of God, forever.

“Even though I walk through the valley of death and dying” feels so real now, it makes the rest of the psalm feel real too.