Years ago a chaplain in the French army
used the Twenty-third Psalm to encourage soldiers before battle. He would urge them
to repeat the opening clause of the Psalm, ticking it off, one finger at a
time. The little finger represented the word THE; the ring finger represented
the word LORD; the middle finger, IS; the index finger, MY; and the thumb,
SHEPHERD. Then he asked every soldier to write the words on the palm of his
hand and to repeat the verse whenever he needed strength.
The chaplain placed special emphasis on
the message of the index finger -- MY. He reminded the soldiers that God is a
personal shepherd with a personal mission -- to get them home safely.
Did the chaplain’s words find their
mark? In the life of one man they did. After a battle one of the young soldiers
was found dead, his right hand clutching the index finger of the left. “The
Lord is MY shepherd…”
I pray that your final hours will find
you clutching the same hope.
-- Max Lucado in “Traveling Light”
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