Psalm 59-65

June 20

Psalm 59-65

"O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." (Psalm 63:1, NIV)

Have you ever been thirsty? I mean really thirsty. Have you ever been so thirsty you thought you were going to die if you did not get a drink immediately? The heading at the beginning of this psalm says; “a psalm of David when he was in the Desert of Judah.” The desert is a dry place; a place that makes you thirsty even thinking about the dry wind, the heat, the low humidity. The desert has an environment that makes consistent intake of fluids essential. The water is constantly flowing out, so we must constantly bring more fluid into our bodies.

In the midst of this environment, David wrote this psalm. Instead of thirsting for water, or perhaps in addition to thirsting for water, David thirsted for God. He says his body longs for God. Have you ever really thirsted for God? Have you ever been to the point where you felt like you would die if you did not have a close encounter with God? David wrote; “earnestly I seek you.” God wants us to seek Him like we would seek water in the midst of the desert.

We all have a void in our lives that can only be filled with a relationship with God. Unless He is in our lives, we continue to seek Him, though sometimes we don’t even know He is what we are seeking. But even when we have been walking with the Lord, our environment is like a desert. We cannot just come to Him and drink once and find satisfaction. We have to keep coming back to Him. Our environment will dry us out. This lost and broken world will pull us away from God unless we consistently come to Him and “drink.”

God wants us to long for Him. He wants to fill us. He wants us to come to Him and drink. Jesus said; "Jesus answered, “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 4:13-14, NIV)  Let us come to Him and drink today.