It may sound like a rudimentary idea, but God’s protection over his sheep cannot be quickly glossed over on the way to deeper theologies. It is a truth that must be deeply internalized and experienced in communion with him, because it is only when we come to a profound trust in his love and care for us that our vision of the world is transformed. Rather than seeing the cosmos as a threatening place that provokes fear, with our good shepherd beside us, we can actually come to “fear no evil.”
