As negative thoughts would enter my mind, I’d say to myself, Don’t give the Enemy a seat. Don’t entertain his ideas. These thoughts are not from a good and trustworthy Shepherd. Move on. Soon after, I was led to study Psalm 23—a text that has comforted and steadied God’s people through the ages as they have navigated troubled waters. Now I was seeing it through fresh eyes. Especially the line that reads, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies” (v. 5). THE ENEMY HAD TAKEN A SEAT AT MY TABLE, AND I WAS ALLOWING MYSELF TO LISTEN TO A KILLER. I could see myself sitting at a
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