Thirsting for the Lord: Psalm 63-Supplication through the Scriptures
Thirsting for the Lord Psalm 63 A weary place and a weary heart make the presence of God the more desirable: if there be nothing below and nothing within to cheer, it is a thousand mercies that we may look up and find all we need. Charles Spurgeon This beautiful psalm was written while David was in the wilderness. How vividly he describes his soul’s desperate need for the Lord. In that dry place, he must’ve physically felt the yearning for water to quench the thirst of his body. He then uses the physical, desperate thirst to give us a metaphor for how his soul was thirsting, fainting, and earnestly seeking the Lord. Could these words describe your need for the Lord? When your eyes open in the morning, are you thirsting for time with the Lord in His Word? When you go about your day, are you fainting for more of Him? Is His presence what you long for? Are you asking Him to give you eyes to behold His beauty and His power? This psalm drives me to ask these questions to myself. ...