Jan 24 - Psalm 42:1-2a

As the deer longs

for the waterbrooks,

so longs my soul for you, O God.

My soul is athirst for God.

Athirst for the living God.

Psalm 42:1-2a

I can to the scriptures thirsty this morning. My soul was a little parched. I felt like faith was my work. Psalm 42 reminds me of God's "preventient" work in blessing my faith.

I know. I know. "Prevenient" is a weird, old-fashioned word. It means essentially that God is graciously intervening in my faith and life pre- (before) I ever do.

To put that another way, God acts before I act, in matters of my faith. Indeed, God is more thirsty for a relationship with me than I am for a relationship with him.

• He created the deer.
  
• He created the need and the deer's thirst.
  
• He also created the stream -- the answer to the deer's desperate prayer.

God is acting preveniently in our lives too ...

• He created you (and me) as his precious children.
  
• He created our spiritual need and thirst.
  
• He also created the answer to our most desperate prayers -- meaning, hope, joy, pardon, and purpose.

God provides for you and me a river of life which bubbles up into a fountain of joy. Are you as thirsty for that as I am?!

In Christ's Love,

a thirsty deer with

how many points on his antlers

(I'll say it before you do:

I usally don't have a point)