Jesus said, ““ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” (Matthew 5:6) David expresses this
exact desire in the first two verses of Psalm 42, “As a deer pants for flowing
streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the
living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” In some way the enemies
of David have managed to cut him off from attending the worship in the temple
and he longs for the presence of God.
May I ask if you are experiencing that same thirst? Do you
truly thirst for God “as a deer pants” for the water? Imagine a deer running
through the mountains. Perhaps he has been startled by a predator or a hunter
and he is fleeing for his life. He runs and he runs and he runs. Finally,
tongue hanging out and breaths coming in great gasping gulps, he searches for
the one thing that will satisfy him…water.
Only God can satisfy the longing of our hearts. Only God can
fill the need of our soul. We must, as Jesus said, continually hunger and
thirst for him. Is your spiritual tongue hanging out from weariness or
frustration? Are you gasping for something to satisfy your thirst? Perhaps you
might be trying to “fill your cup” with the wrong things; with substitutes for
the living water. It’s time to pour out the substitutes, the false gods
(Jeremiah 2:13) and let God fill your cup with himself.
Prayer: Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up, Lord. Come and
quench this thirsting of my soul. Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more.
Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole.
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