Thoughts on Psalm 63:1

 ¹ O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Is there a food item that you enjoy so much, that if offered to you, you would take it, even if you were not really hungry? What would you be willing to do to get that item if you were starving?

David had felt the power of God upon his heart and knew the feeling of being spiritually well. In the opening of this Psalm David exclaims possession of God for his life. The challenges he was facing had worked up a spiritual hunger and thirst for God's touch. David is in a desolate area. He is in need of God's help.

We are always in need of God's touch. Jesus in John 4:13-14 tells us that: “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

The water that David had grown to enjoy was a well of spiritual water springing up within his soul. Removing all the doubts of his eternity. He had sipped from the well of salvation. David in the rest of the Psalm speaks about being under attack from those who desire to take his life. Thus, he has grown spiritually dry and weary. 

Maybe you have come under attack. Maybe you feel like David in dry and weary land longing to feel the presence of God surround you. You have tasted this water, you long for it, you feel spiritually dry. Just as David claimed a possession of God's relationship and earnestly sought the Lord to quench his soul. Claim your salvation through Christ. Seek to quench your spiritual thirst through the well Christ provides. 

Let you prayer be: O Lord, I have grown weary from the attacks and temptations that pierce my soul. Fill my heart with joy. Purify my desires like refining gold. Strengthen my courage to face the struggles. Guide me to the well of eternity that I might drink from it and be filled with spiritual power to fight the good fight.  Amen...