David did not write this from comfort. He wrote it from the wilderness — from the years of running, hiding, misunderstood, hunted by the very king he served faithfully. The declaration 'I shall not want' is not a statement of abundance. It is a statement of trust made from a place of lack. That is what makes it one of the most powerful sentences ever written. Not what it describes — but where it was written from.
The Divine Shepherd
Psalm 23:1
