My Soul Longs for You

Psalm 42

As the deer pants for water, so my soul longs for You, O God!  Psalm 42:1 How poetic to describe our eager desire for a relationship with God with the image of a deer thirsting for fresh, flowing water!  I'm sure everyone can identify with great thirst being satisfied, but do we compare that longing with our need to be right with God?  Longing to be in His presence? Confident that He is always with us?

The writer of this Psalm asks why his soul is downcast. But then wisely REMEMBERS the Lord! vs 6. We need to constantly remember who God IS and then remind ourselves that he is for us!

"By day the Lord commands His steadfast love, and at night His song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life" vs 8.  Wow!  Does that not tell us we are covered?

Verses 5 and 11 end with this declaration:  "Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God."

And with this hope in our hearts we agree with the psalmist as he longs to be with other believers in worship and praise of our wonderful God! vs 4.

Written by Marywinn Amaya