Have you ever read something so many times that you don’t actually read the words, but just take it in as a whole? That’s the way I felt about the twenty-third Psalm, until one week when it was in the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson. The way the psalm was set up in the Lesson alerted me to the need to pay more attention to it.
I began reading and pondering every word of the psalm, which I hadn’t done in years. That’s when two words stood out: a table. Those words are part of verse 5, which says, “Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.”
I’d never thought about those two words before. I’m used to asking God to explain His Word to me, so I did just that. Silently, I asked Him, “Why did You make me see those words?” For an entire day, I mentally sat with the words, asking God, divine Love, to teach me.
