Good Morning Friends,
“As the deer pants for streams of water, so
my soul pants for you, O God. My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?” (Psalm 42:1-2)
After a long day in the hot sun of Israel,
the deer makes its way toward the stream.
It’s not easy to get to the water.
The stream has cut a deep ravine into the dry land. The deer makes its way step by step down the
steep side of the ravine. At each step
it stops to make sure no predators are stalking it. Finally it makes it to the edge of the water
and with a final look both directions puts it nose deep into the cool
water. It’s hard to believe one deer can
drink that much and for that long. It
just keeps lapping up the water. It must
have been terribly thirsty!
How thirsty are you? Are you thirsty enough to make the
disciplined journey to the water? Are
you thirsty enough to stay watchful for those things and beings who would keep
you away from the water? Are you thirsty
enough to stay at the water once you get there and drink deeply? How thirsty are you for God?
Those who are really thirsty will find their
thirst satisfied! Jesus told the woman
at the well: “If you knew the gift of
God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he
would have given you living water. ... Everyone who drinks this water will be
thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in
him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:10, 13-14)
His, by Grace,
Steve
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