My soul longs for You

As the deer pants for the water brooks,

so my soul pants for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, the living God;

When shall I come and appear before God?

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,

for the help of His presence.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, t

he help of my countenance and my God.

Ps 42: 1-2, 5, 11

A sweet word from the Lord today. After a season of busyness, I realized that I have been trying to sustain myself with my own strength. Events happen, things occur, snap decisions need to be made, but I have not took time to be quiet before God. There is this deep longing for the presence of God, though He never departed, a deep sense of a lack of fellowship with God. I grapple with issues and decisions, but not in partnership with Him. In this business of changing lives, I have no business doing that. It seems like disappointment, despair, fatigue gets welled up in one’s soul in the season of busyness and God’s word just broke the dam. Ah! Sweetness – my hope is in God & I shall yet again praise Him. I shall will myself to praise God and as I do that I realize that He is indeed worthy to be praised. Again I am reminded, “My hope is in God!” Never in my own abilities or strengths, but in God, who called me to walk the straight and narrow path, who called me to serve Him & love Him. His call is not to success, but merely to faithfulness. O Lord, my soul pants for you.

Brothers and sisters, have you taken time lately to be quiet before our Lord? To hear Him whisper His words of grace into your ears? Have you brought the issues that you grapple and struggle with and seek Him? Our hope is in our God!