FROM PARCHED DRYNESS OF TRADITIONS TO LIFE GIVING QUENCHING LIVING WATERS

November 25

FROM PARCHED DRYNESS OF TRADITIONS, TO LIFE GIVING QUENCHING LIVING WATERS

Psalms 42:2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

David had the commandments and the ordinances.  David had the Ark.  David had the sacrifices. David had the prophets Nathan and Samuel at his service to give him God’s Word.  David even had within himself a gift of prophecy that uncontrollably flowed out of him and yet he confessed that his soul thirsteth for the living God.

David spoke of God’s protection with faith, of God’s provision with anticipation, of God’s redemption with assurance, but yet he said my soul thirsteth for the living God.

Many of us can be satisfied with less than the best.  Many of us claim to worship a God that is the creator and King of the universe and yet, act as if He was an impotent, deaf, dumb, irrational and indifferent deity that lives so far away from them that He has no clues about their needs and heart cries.  

David believed in a God that was alive, free, attentive to his needs--big or small.  He believed in a God that is close to us, relevant, dedicated to our welfare.  Believing in such a God as this, he could not be satisfied with the mediocrity of religious rituals, with shadow-pictures, with the rehearsals pertaining to future bounty and salvation, nor with anything that put God in a box that made Him less than the All-in-All.  David’s soul required more for its satisfaction than the offices of religious duties, dead rituals and traditions couldn’t quench his spiritual thirst.  

In our discovery of God, may we not stop at the mediocre, at the mere emulations of life and truth projected by earthly elements.  The emptiness, the hunger, the dissatisfaction that is within us cannot, will not be filled with anything pertaining to this earth, nor with any type of religious function.  The only thing that will ever fill us to the fullest is the Living God himself, the great I Am that I Am (exodus 3:14).  So let us appear before Him daily in prayer.  He waits for us, not just to hear the sound of our voice, but also to speak to us, to fill our heart with the fullness of His everlasting Water of Life.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.