Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Wideo Wednesday: The Lord is My Shepherd



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZ8pFCwMn4  He is Jehovah, Bill and Gloria Gaither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8txqw-u4V78  El Shaddai, Amy Grant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt3Ggo1CE3g  Shepherd Me Oh God; Marty Haugen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHPewvg7ZqI  Johnny Kay, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day


He is Jehovah has nothing to do with the Jehovah's Witnesses; Jehovah was a rather poorly transliterated name for God centuries before they were a thing and latched onto it. El Shaddai is another song making use of other ancient titles and names of God. The important thing is that they are both working on the Christian understanding of the Old Testament. Shepherd Me Oh God is basically an adaptation of Psalm 23 (The Lord is My Shepherd). I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day was originally a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written during our other time of Civil War. It was a sustaining note during my own period of an eclipse of faith; this line still gives me goosebumps: "God is not dead, nor doth He sleep." Amen, and amen. 

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