My tears have been my food day
and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your
God?"
These things I remember as I
pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of
God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
among the festive throng.
Why are you downcast, O my
soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise
him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will
remember you from the land of the
Deep calls to deep in the roar
of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
By day the LORD directs his
love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock, "Why
have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the
enemy?"
My bones suffer mortal agony as
my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Why are you downcast, O my
soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise
him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:1-11
Have you ever been really
thirsty? Maybe you have been on a long road trip and your throat is totally
dry? And then you find the water, and you splash it on your face, you drink it
and you laugh.
Our faith can be the same way.
We search for the water Jesus gives us, and when we find it we want to splash
in it, drink it and splash others with it. That is the way it should be. Share
that water Jesus gives us.
Do you long for something this
world cannot provide? This dissatisfaction is a thirst of the soul for God. Run
to the One who alone can quench that thirst.
Only Jesus, the Living Water, can satisfy the thirsty soul.
Our Daily Bread –