How could we describe our desire for God? Let’s look at Psalm 42.
Do we have a thirst for God? Do we sing and shout God’s praise in our churches?
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. (Ps 42:1-4 ESV)
What do we do when we are depressed? Do we draw near to God with song and prayer?
Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. The Lord will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night—a prayer to the God of my life. (Ps 42:5-8 HCSB)
Do we ever mourn and feel like God has forsaken us? Do the taunts of our enemies discourage us?
I will ask God, my Rock, “Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy’s oppression?” Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?” (Ps 42:9-10 ISV)
Why are we discouraged at times and what is a solution?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Ps 42:11 KJV)
Is similar imagery used to describe the scene around the throne and the Lamb of God?
for the Lamb at the center of the throne will shepherd them and will guide them to springs of the water of life. And God will wipe every tear from their eyes. (Rev 7:17 LSB)
How could we describe our desire for God? You decide!
