Herbert: The God of love my shepherd is

Monday, February 27, 2012
    Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633
Meditation:
    ... my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
    —Philippians 4:19 (NIV)
Quotation:
The God of love my shepherd is,
    And he that doth me feed:
While he is mine and I am his,
    What can I want or need?

He leads me to the tender grasse,
    Where I both feed and rest;
Then to the streams that gently passe:
    In both I have the best.

Or if I stray, he doth convert,
    And bring my minde in frame:
And all this not for my desert,
    But for his holy name.

Yea, in deaths shadie black abode
    Well may I walk, not fear:
For thou art with me, and thy rod
    To guide, thy staffe to bear.

Nay, thou dost make me sit and dine,
    Ev’n in my enemies’ sight;
My head with oyl, my cup with wine
    Runnes over day and night.

Surely thy sweet and wondrous love
    Shall measure all my dayes;
And as it never shall remove,
    So neither shall my praise.
    ... George Herbert (1593-1633), The Poetical Works of George Herbert, New York: D. Appleton, 1857, p. 219-220 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are my sole safety.

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