"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} (NIV1984)
As David suffered
from physical thirst in the Desert of Judah, his mind turned to his spiritual
state. He suffered a thirst for God; his soul thirsted and his body longed.
Have we ever been in a state like this? When we need fellowship with God, and
we can’t get it? When we are in a “dry and weary land”, a place where the
Spirit of the Living God seems absent? Perhaps we are in this place today.
May
we learn from David’s example in this psalm. As he lay on his bed, he remembered
that God has helped him. He sings to God and his soul clings to Him. He
remembers seeing God’s power and glory as he worshiped in the tabernacle, and
he tells God that he will worship Him again with his lips and his hands. He
tells God that God's love for him is of greater value than life. Yet He is
confident that he will live to worship again, and he is confident that his
thirsty soul will be satisfied again with God. He is confident that God will
strike his enemies down, and that God will uphold his life.
Friend, this is
real faith; the faith of Hebrews 11:6. This is a text for those dry
and weary places we find ourselves in. This is a text and a man that we should
emulate.
Spirit of the Living God fall fresh on me.
{'Spirit of the Living God', Daniel Iverson (1926) & Michael Baughen (1982)}
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