As a deer....

Psalm 42

1 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.

I am thankful that God makes my heart restless until it finds rest in Him. All of the things that we hope will satisfy, do not, and so we are restless. Restless and thirsty. I was trying to imagine the parched deer in the Psalm above, the picture in my mind was a pitiful one, not like the handsome satisfied deer in this photo. I also thought, this is how the deer which the hunters have brought in on our farm look. They of course will not thirst again, but the desperate, tongue hanging image remains. I want to be this desperate for God. I'm asking God to make me this desperate, thirsty, parched. Jesus knew I would be thirsty, he knew what I needed, the water only He can give. Without water we cannot live, but John 4 says,

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

My need is for God, not for anything this world can give. He offers the water, He wants to give it.

John 7:37 Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

G'Night