They relied on God as the chief supplier of their needs, the one who fueled them to move forward. They were [literally] dying as part of the supply chain in God’s battle for truth. They saw this line about pastures as closely connected to the adjacent promise they would lack nothing. They were soldiers in the army of the King, not residents at his retreat center. Their life experiences provided a certain filter for the words of Psalm 23.

You know this passage from a wedding you were in or attended. But what is Paul, a single, tent maker and Old Testament scholar doing writing about love? There must be something more going on than a wedding sermon.