Psalm 63:1 (ESV)
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts
for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and
weary land where there is no water.
In prayer we express our longings. We utter our deepest
needs. We ache. We hurt. We cry. We wait.
In a sense all our longings are the same, even though we
are all different people with unique lives and individual feelings. But our
longings, our friends’ longings, and even our enemy’s longings point in the
same direction. The objective of all our longings is God.
God designed us to long for him. Every hunger pang, every
craving to buy, to belong, or even to right a wrong shows that in our deepest
heart we long for God. We want to know and be known by him, to love and be
loved by him.
One day Jesus met a woman carrying a water jug. She was
thirsty for God but didn’t know it. Divorced five times and ostracized by her
community, she avoided people, preferring to draw water alone. She tried
dodging Jesus’ conversation with religious chit–chat.
But the more he talked, the more she craved what He had.
Soon the woman with the water jar found herself asking Jesus for a drink. Who
could guess that the living water He was talking about was the gift of His own
blood by which her life could be redeemed?
This woman didn’t know she had been praying, but she was.
Going from husband to husband, from fad to fad, she was pleading. She was
searching for God.
Dear Lord, our hearts are restless until we find our rest
in You. Thank You for finding us in our need and for filling us with Your love
and giving us life. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.
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