Article November 28, 1959 Issue

"I SHALL NOT WANT"

DOROTHY A. EREAUT

Over the years many have found comfort and inspiration in these words of the twenty-third Psalm; "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." The flock of the good Shepherd cannot want for anything, because God is Love, and His tender care has already supplied everything the flock could possibly need.

The metaphor of the Shepherd found a ready response in the hearts of a pastoral people. And through the ages the poetic images of the green pastures and still waters have continued to bring comfort and peace to hungering hearts.

In our time, this Psalm has been given added significance and inspiration by Mary Baker Eddy, who had a deep and abiding sense of the nature of God as Love and of man as enfolded in His love. In the spiritual interpretation of the twenty-third Psalm, given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she writes (p. 578), "[Divine love] is my shepherd; I shall not want."

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