I shall not want......

From Frederick Buechner:

”’I shall not want,’ the psalm says. Is that true? There are lots of things we go on wanting, go on lacking, whether we believe in God or not. They are not just material things like a new roof or a better paying job, but things like good health, things like happiness for our children, things like being understood and appreciated, like relief from pain, like some measure of inner peace not just for ourselves but for the people we love and for whom we pray. Believers and unbelievers alike, we go on wanting plenty our whole lives through.

But when the psalm says, I shall not want, maybe it is speaking the utter truth anyhow…maybe it means that whatever else is withheld, the shepherd never withholds himself, and he is what we want more then anything else.”