Theologically, I love this verse.

Practically, I wrestle with it.

Because if I’m honest, there are many days where I feel lack everywhere.

Not enough time.
Not enough money.
Not enough certainty.
Not enough wisdom for the decisions in front of me.

Sometimes I feel the weight of building companies more than I feel the peace of being led.

And yet, if the Lord is my Shepherd, I lack nothing.

How do we reconcile those two realities?

The older I get, the more I’m beginning to believe that intimacy with God is often formed in the tension between what we think we need and what He chooses to provide.

There is something sacred about dependency.

A child reaching for her Father.
A shepherd leading sheep that cannot survive on their own.
An entrepreneur realizing that strategy, talent, and effort can only carry him so far.

Some of the deepest moments of my walk with Jesus have not come from abundance, but from need.

Need has a way of stripping self-sufficiency from us.
Need forces us to pray honestly.
Need reminds us that we were never meant to carry the burden of leadership alone.

And even when His answer is “no,” He is still good.

Still faithful.
Still near.
Still sovereign over every closed door, delayed outcome, and unanswered prayer.

This is why theology matters so deeply to me.

Because what we believe about God inevitably shapes how we lead.
It shapes how we endure pressure.
How we treat people.
How we make decisions.
How we respond when the numbers disappoint us or the future feels unclear.

Bad theology creates anxious leaders (which I’ve been VERY guilty of over the years).

My prayer for all of us inside The Foundry is not that we would be saved from seasons of need, but that we would know the Father so intimately in those seasons that we would truly lack nothing.

Not because circumstances change.

But because we have become deeply convinced that the Good Shepherd is enough.

A faithful King.
A righteous Father.
A Shepherd who has never once abandoned His sheep.