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The "I Shall Not Want" of Providence - Reformed (Psalm 23)
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When John Calvin was dying, friends urged him to stop working. He refused: "Would you have the Lord find me idle?" His trust in providence was complete. "I shall not want" meant: whatever comes is from my Shepherd's hand. Not that life would be comfortable, but that God was sovereign over every circumstance. Calvin died peacefully at 54, having shaped a reformation. The Shepherd led him through green pastures AND dark valleys—and Calvin trusted the leading in both.
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