Thirsty

This is my new Brita water filter. I started college a week ago, and the only easily accessible water comes from the drinking fountain across the hall or the bathroom sink. However, once I pass this suspect water through my Brita and put in in my fridge, I feel like I am drinking straight from a mountain spring. Well, maybe not, but the Brita has been especially nice this week because I have been sick and therefore forcing fluids. (I am starting to feel better.)

I have been thinking a lot about "thirst" this week, and in a broader sense than just the wonderful water from my Brita. Psalm 63:1-4 says this:

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you,

as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,

beholding your power and glory.

Because your steadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

So I will bless you as long as I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands.

I have been challenged by this Psalm. Do I thirst for God? Do I long for him so much that my flesh faints? Over the past week I have celebrated my 19th birthday, and as I have thought about a new year of life, I hope to make this year a year of thirsting for God. I hope to desire God more and more throughout the year, and then seek him more the next year.

Why should we thirst for God? Thankfully, David provides a pretty good answer: Because your steadfast love is better than life. We thirst for God because we know he satisfies. He quenches the desires of our heart. Sometimes we get sidetracked and look for fulfillment elsewhere, and that is sad because we are rejecting God himself when we do so. But this year I intend to seek to become more acquainted with God, who satisfies our hearts, gives us salvation, and quenches our thirst for living water, which is way better than even the Brita variety.