What is the thing that your desire more than anything else? When hungry, what always sounds good? when you want a drink, what do you reach for? If you were stuck on desert island, what would you long for?

That is precisely where David is when he penned the words of Psalm 63. He is Fleeing and hiding in the wilderness of Judah. He has spent all his water and provision. He has depleted his stores of energy. And that is when we see the heart of the man that pursued God! He writes:

Psalm 63 King James Version

(A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.)

63 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

² To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

³ Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

⁴ Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

⁵ My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

⁶ When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

⁷ Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

⁸ My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.

⁹ But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁰ They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

¹¹ But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

David lays his heart out to God and says with passion in his voice, “Though art my God.” David cannot wait to enter into the presence of his God because he knows it is there that his soul will get fed and find the ever-sustaining water of life. It is in that secret place early in the morning that David must get to. The stakes are too high, his needs are too many, the night had been too long, but he knows that in God’s wings he will find safety. David has a desire that is unmatched by even his basses needs. It is the desire to meet with God; yea, rather to meet with God… again.

Oh, that our hearts would cry out like Davids did. That we would desire to see God do what no one else could. To be so aware of our need of Christ himself that we can be satisfied with nothing but the very real presents of God himself. That our hunger pains serve only to remind us of our spiritual poverty. that our dry mouth reminds of the souls that “know not the man” and will spend an eternity in Hell apart from him.

Oh that we would Desire God!

Unfortunately, “at the time when kings go forth to battle” (II Sam 11:1), David did not have the same earnest desire for the very near presents of God in his life. He lacked no good thing, yet his heart had grown cold to the morning alter. He lost sight of his need for purity, for wisdom, for sustenance. He hungered not after righteousness.

He lost, albeit for a moment, his desire for God.

We have all been there. I find it a daily struggle to seek Gods face. It has become a chore and not a pleasure. It has become a job, and not a passion. I can think of nothing more joyous, nothing more meaningful, noting more productive, nothing more important than getting into a place of helpless need and crying out to God and seeking his favor.

I can think of nothing more harmful, nothing more scary, nothing more soul quenching than to have no need great enough, no desire strong enough to dive me to my knees before the Creator of the Univers.

It is my hearts cry to desire God, and never loose it.

~S.T.
I Thessalonians 5:24
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