Do you long for God’s presence? How greatly do you yearn for Him? The psalm writer in Psalm 42 draws a picture of a deer thirsting, longing, and panting after water. When you pray, how thirsty are you for God and His presence?
Do you ever feel God has forgotten you? Why do we have such dark nights and times when we feel so far away from God? Our yearning is as healthy as a thirst. In the midst of sorrow, be sure: God hears. Put your hope in Him.
The Psalmist longs for God. We have all had times where we asked, “Where is God?”. The depths of writer’s absence from God calls to the depths of God’s presence. Your yearning will be swallowed by His quenching presence.
The Psalmist remembered days gone by. There are those who yearn for the past, and those who wish to erase the past. When we pray, we can look back to our past as an indicator of where we have been, but our past is not a dictator of where we will go.
Adversity did not lead the psalmist to give up on God. He was cast down, but not for long. Have your hardships
driven you to yearn and thirst for God in prayer? There is a “yet to be” in your future.
Jesus told the thirsty woman at the well, “Whoever drinks of the water I give will never thirst again.” She was thirsty. But she soon would be satisfied, not from rituals, nor location, nor from the lies from the men she had known. Come and see a man who quenched the thirsting of her soul!”
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