Devotional Guide -- March 12

Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The Seekers: God and Man

“O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.” Psalm 63:1

Do you know what it is to be thirsty and not even know you are thirsty? You’re out on the golf course. Every drive is perfect. Every putt seems to find the hole. Engrossed in the excitement, you haven’t even taken a sip of water!

Suddenly, eighteen holes are over. Adrenalin is no longer pumping, and you are so thirsty that you cannot bear it. You go back to the club house quickly, pause in the “Nineteenth Hole,” and order a tall glass of ice water. Your mouth, though parched, waters as you see the glass being filled. That is real thirst!

Isn’t that what the psalmist is talking about here? Not just thinking, “I would like to have a glass of cool water,” but wanting water to quench unbearable thirst. He depicts a person who will do almost anything for a drink of living water. This is a person who knows what it is to be nourished by God’s holy presence, and suddenly is without God. Only God will satisfy. He seeks God as a dehydrated man seeks water.

This is the kind of seeking that pleases God. We need to thirst for what only he gives.

Prayer: Father, we are thirsty. Make us desperately thirsty. Amen

“I am the resurrection and the life.” John 11:25
Lenten Devotional Guide
prepared for Homosassa United Methodist Church, Spring 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Director