To pant for living water

"As the deer pants for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God." Psalm 42:1-2


Have you ever set out to search for satisfaction, completeness, happiness, and/or contentment?

Isn't it so much easier to search for all those feelings in things we can see and people we can hear? It is and that is just honesty. The world offers those things but only temporarily.

When we fall into pits of loneliness, sadness, frustration, even desperation we search and cry out for help from that which will be immediate.

The deer pants for streams of water because it's life depends on it. Yet how often do we, do I, pant for God because my life REALLY does depend on Him.

I desire complete satisfaction, completeness, happiness, and contentment in the Lord. I want to live my life longing and thirsting for Jesus as though each second depends on Him.

Yet at times I don't! I don't search or even pant for Him as though I will die if I don't receive a drink of Him.

No one or thing can satisfy our deepest thirst but the Lord Himself.

Might you pant for Jesus today as though your life depends on it. Because it does!

Jesus I long for You in the deepest way possible. Forgive me for trying to satisfy my thirst from the things that only quench it temporarily.  May I pant in the truest sense for You and the living water that only You offer. Amen