Psalm 42.1 “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.”
Desire is one of the most powerful drives in human life. That inner feeling of wanting is felt as lack, and it is only satisfied when fulfilled. That’s true of ice cream on a hot day, buying something we have saved up for, celebrating the birth of a child, or a reunion of close friends after years of being separated by geography. Then there’s the deer desperate for water in a dry land, because water is life. And it’s that image of desperation that best describes the longing for God, the desire to know God more intimately, and for us to be known more deeply by the One whose goodness and mercy have followed us all the days of our lives. Longing is desire to know more of our Lord Jesus: “More of his saving fullness see, more of his love who died for me.”
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