Psalm 42 // As the deer…

Deep longing for God is an indicator of a heart focused on Him.
May all of us who pursue Christ always have this longing, dependance and love for our Lord & Master, our Savior and our God.

A life lived in longing is a life that points others toward Him who first loved us. As GoLove in His Name, our love for Him should be so strong and obvious.

“1 As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.
2 I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
Where is your God?
4 I remember this as I pour out my heart:
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.
5 Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
6 I am deeply depressed;
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
8 The Lord will send His faithful love by day;
His song will be with me in the night —
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God, my rock,
Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemys oppression?
10 My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
Where is your God?
11 Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.”

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