“As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for
You, my God.” (Psalm 42:1)
This psalm got made into a song, and sometimes when people sing
it they think it means they are supposed
to long for God or like church services and church songs. But this psalm is much bigger than that. It means that God is my life-giver and
therefore my desire for life cannot be satisfied apart from Him.
This is not a picture of Bambi wandering through a leafy-green,
stream-laden forest with a slightly parched throat. This is desert country. No rivers, just wadis -- gullies that would
contain water only in the rainy season.
Now the wadis are dried up, and the deer is going to die if it doesn’t
find water. That is us. We were made for soul satisfaction and simply
die without it.
If you want life, you want God.
You want Him the way a deer dying of thirst wants water. You want God more than you know.
-- John
Ortberg in “The Me I Want To Be”
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