“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.”
Psalm 42:1 KJV
This psalm was by the sons of Korah, who was the great grandson of Levi. The sons of Korah were a family of Levitical singers, whom David chose to preside over the music of the tabernacle-tent on Mount Zion. “I long to drink of You, O God, to drink deeply from the streams of pleasure flowing from Your Presence. My longings overwhelm me for more of You!” The hunted deer that pants desperately at the water’s edge is the psalmist’s longing and passion that was yet unfulfilled. What he didn’t have, we do, through the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through faith in His finished work, the Holy Spirit makes the resurrected Presence of the Living Christ real to us, by which He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, that through these we may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and become partakers of the divine nature. God is passionate that the spirit He has placed within us should be faithful to Him. Let’s be passionate for Him. Amen!
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