God’s Power Over the Human Heart (Part 2 of 3)

Believer, don't you long to see God's power and glory working?  For Him to do something so great that the only explanation for it is that God did it?  God's child loves to see his Father's hand at work!

November 24, 2020

"O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;  To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary."

Psalm 63:1-2

Part 2

Yesterday:  God is My “Mighty One!”
“O God, thou art my God.”
David was running for his life.  His back was against the wall, yet he did not blame God; he trusted in Him.

“Early will I seek thee.”
The first thing every day, I will spend time with God.

 

Today:  What does My Body and Soul Long For?

“My soul thirsteth for thee.”
As David has been separated from the Tabernacle worship while he is fleeing from an enemy.  He is thirsting to be with his God.  Dear believers, what is it that you thirst for?  David could say,

“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.  My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” (Psalm 42:1-2).

The way the running deer is thirsty for water, David said, “so panteth my soul after thee.”  He was not content to merely have a thirst for something religious.  But His desire was after God, the living God, the God who has power and gives strength to His child.  He is the One who gives life to the soul.

 

“My flesh longeth for thee.”
Do you see it?  David thirsted for God with his “soul,” and he longed for God with his “flesh.”  These picture for us the whole man, “soul” and “body.”  The supreme desire in David’s life is his desire for God.  Whether it was his soul that was needy or his body that wanted support, he looked to the only One that could help him, the Mighty God.

“My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God” (Psalm 84:2).

 

“In a dry and thirsty land.”
As he wrote these words, he felt the heat, the barrenness, dry rocks, and sand in the arid wilderness.  Indeed, without God’s help through this land, he will faint.  Why?

 

“Where no water is.”
Without water, there is no life.  And in this barren land, there is no stream, no well where he can cool his parched lips.  His body and soul are famished without the Lord’s touch.  For the believer, God can make the dry places in life an oasis.

“And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes” (Isaiah 35:7).

David is in a place not of his choosing.  But while there, he keeps his priorities right.  He longs to be with God in the Tabernacle worshipping Him there.  What is it that draws his heart back to that?  Tomorrow we will think more about this.  See you then!

 

Quote:  “For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.  He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of His eye” (Deuteronomy 32:9-10).  God was a blessing to His people, even in the wilderness!