Hunger and Thirst - by Elizabeth Reynolds

Psalm 42:1-2...

As the deer pants for streams of water, 

so my soul pants for You, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When can I go and meet with God?

And Psalm 63:1 says...

O God, You are my God, earnestly I seek You;

my soul thirsts for you; my body longs for you,

in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

If these poetic lines tell us anything, it's that David realised that he could not survive without God. And that His love is better than life (Psalm 63:3). He also wrote that his soul would be satisfied as with the richest of foods (Psalm 63:5)

As Barry Chant says in his book "Praying in the Spirit" hunger and thirst for God is the essence of true prayer. Jesus said "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

We need to pray regularly, if not, constantly to draw on God for our spiritual nourishment. When we pray, we grow to realise more and more our need to pray, and just exactly hungry and thirsty we are for God. The more we get of God, the more we want. And this is good. He is our Father. It is the most natural thing in the world to want to come to Him to be filled. It satisfies is. It pleases Him.

Let us not cease to pray. 

God bless you this week.