Psalm 63:1
O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You:
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
Ever go on a hike without a water container? Tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth. Hard to speak, much less breathe. Sweat drenches your body for a while, but then evaporates leaving you really thirsty. Are our souls that thirsty?
After all, we've been in a dry and thirsty land on our hikes, our wanderings, our walks. Just sitting here thinking about it is making me thirsty
and I have a cold bottle of water staring me in the face. There, now I'm not physically thirsty for awhile. But I am oh, so thirsty for more of what God wants to share with me!
Psalm 63:1 is one of my favorite verses (I have quite a few faves) and I enjoy studying it out, always finding something new to learn, simply because God chooses to share new things about His Word with me. He wants to share Himself with you, too. Take my hand and let's go for a walk in The Word.
SEEK GOD
Amos 5:4
For this is what The LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me so that you may live."
Isaiah 55:6
Seek The LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near.
Matthew 7:7,8
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
TRUST GOD
Psalm 31:14
But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
THANK GOD
Psalm 118:28
You are my God, and I will give You thanks. You are my God, and I will exalt You.
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
TASTE THE GOODNESS OF GOD
Psalm 34:8
O taste and see that The LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in Him.
John 6:35
And Jesus said to them, "I Am The Bread of Life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst."
DRINK THE WATER OF GOD
John 7:37,38
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’ ”
It is best to seek God early, for He calls out to us early. The devil calls us early, too. Both of them want us, but only One of them Loves us. The devil hates us the moment we are conceived, for we are made in God's triune image, and the devil hates God and everything affiliated with God.
Having the strong foundation of Christ upon which to build our lives will only make us stronger as the years go by, as long as we remain faithful to Him. We must fill ourselves with The Word of God on a daily basis. We can start when we wake up from sleep.
*Thank Him for the new day He has given us wherein we can honor Him and He can accomplish His purpose in us.
*Sing His praises early in our day.
*Pray with Him at first light or before the sun even rises.
*Praise Him for getting us through the night. Not just for rest, but for being with us in our good dreams and bad dreams.
*Read our Bibles. We read and study The Scriptures together, when we ask God's Holy Spirit to reveal God's Holy Word to our untrained eyes, and the eyes of our hearts devour what God is giving us. And we want more of The Word, more of God, in us, for He strengthens the weak, and gives life to the dying.
A daily walk in The Word is a refreshing walk in The Word. I cannot rely on a single bottle of water to quench my daily thirst. If there is any left in it after the first day, then it becomes tepid and flat. Just like us: lukewarm Christianity.
Lukewarm Christians do not refresh: they repel. Halfhearted Christianity is unfulfilling. Straddling the fence is not choosing sides. In fact to try to attempt to move forward or even backward while straddling a fence is utterly painful. And we look ridiculous. We are fooling no one, not even God.
Christianity should be contagious. For the joy of The LORD is risen up within us! We are enthusiastic, bubbling over with gladness and gratitude for such grace as God has shown us! We love to be in His presence! Always radiantly shining His Light into the doom and gloom of someone's life.
We love our Lord and Savior and we want you to love Him, too! It is why we can't stop ourselves from talking about Him all the time! We are excited to be Christians--Christ followers--and we want you to be excited, too.
