“The Lord is My Shepherd”: The Moral Life Begins with the God Who Is

first in a guest series by Myles Werntz on Psalm 23 and the moral life

The 23rd Psalm opens up with a curious equivocation, a “this is that” movement, introducing THE LORD as the shepherd. We’ll return to what this equation of the creator of all things with a sheepherder, but we first begin by asking about the verb that holds the equation together: the “is”.

The pursuit of the moral life is not one which begins, I think, wi…