What do you thirst for? Do you thirst for adventure? Fame? Fortune? Leisure? Something else? In Psalm 42, the psalmist said he thirsted for God as a deer thirsts for the water brook. Perhaps it was a time of drought and the psalmist saw a deer drinking deeply from one of the few sources of water drinking as if it didn’t know where or when it would have such refreshment. Imagine then the psalmist making a correlation between that and a thirst for God. He identifies reasons why he may have been in his own spiritual drought, but remembers that hope in God, longing for God satisfies us in times of trouble. It is a call for us to consider where we seek satisfaction with the psalmist concluding that if we want it to last, it must come from God.
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