Yearning: A Panting Pursuit of the Living God

Those in pursuit of God long for “further still” with Him, Amen? They who fully enjoy Him are always desirous of more. There is no end to the infinite God, there is always more to learn, more to enjoy, more to delve into deep pleasure with. Much akin to the dearest of companions with whom we enjoy sweet fellowship with yet only supremely more dear.  

The great pursuit of the soul is to find God and He is easy to be entreated. He strengthens, comforts, satisfies, teaches, and sanctifies us as we delve into and enjoy His Presence, peace and grace. We will discover Him in His Word, in prayer, in praise, as well as in fellowship with His people and a myriad of other ways. In our verse for today, the psalmist described his yearning as a deer panting for water. The need for water to sustain the life of the animal is a fitting comparison for our soul’s desperate need for God Who is the great Source for our lives providing us richly with the “living water”. “For in Him we live and move and have our being,” as Luke writes in Acts 17:28. We are to call out to Him constantly, fervently as He is only a breath away.

Our souls can often feel like a parched and weary land where there is no water, Amen? Weary from the world and its ways. Weary from our own stinking actions, words, self-centeredness, worry, fear and a myriad of other things. He longs for us to call out to Him, to seek Him with all our hearts and souls and minds. As we call on Him He tells us great and unsearchable things that we do not yet know. Come to Him humbly yet expectantly. If He is the great desire of our hearts we will not be disappointed. Indeed, He will blow us away with His faithfulness.