Rod and Staff

I don’t have lots of confidence in English translators to figure out what David meant by “rod” and “staff” in Psalm 23:4. Sometimes they translate the word they translate here as “rod” in other places as “staff”. No matter…

Herders needed one tool with a crook at the end of it to grab an animal by the leg and pull it closer. They needed another tool for cracking an aggressive animal in the head to ward it off and protect the sheep. Both tools are there to comfort us. Even the one that seems to be decreasing our freedom or dragging us backwards.

Trust the Shepherd.