Good morning. As we celebrate our God today in true, spiritual worship, it is my prayer that we will all find ourselves refreshed in the experience. Worship is directed to our Father God in all His fulness, to all Three Persons of God, but it also serves to quench the thirsty spirit of the worshiper. Please read and consider Psalm 42:
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation 6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.
There are times when each of us feel as though we are wandering through a dry, thirsty, spiritual landscape. It is a place where we do not feel fulfilled, and our spirit is thirsty within us. This Psalm addresses that reality, and it provides a wonderful song of comfort and strength.
Yes, we will from time to time feel as though we are passing through a spiritual desert but take heart, for God is with you! His strength, and beauty, and glory, and wonder, and truth are all there for us. The key to finding them and quenching the thirsty spirit is through our heartfelt worship of the King of Kings.
As the deer pants for a sip of water, so our souls long for the refreshment that is ours through coming into the presence of the Almighty in worship.
Worship well today, and may your soul be well quenched!
Vern