As The Deer Panteth

As the deer pants for streams of water, so
my soul pants for you, my God. Psalms 42:1

Have you ever had that parched feeling in the back of your mouth because you were so thirsty that anything liquidous would satisfy. Have you ever been hiking and ran out of water only to realize that the car that has more water, is still three miles away. When that realization comes to fruition the tongue instantaneously becomes swollen, you get an headache, and your mouth in general becomes exceedingly hot (reminds of me those gum commercials that showed the temperature of your mouth before chewing their gum). Just as the Psalmist painted a picture of thirst that was only to be quenched by the cool, refreshing, pristine water, so we are to have our spiritual thirst quenched by Jesus via the Holy Spirit.

If there is or was ever the desire to have more than what the world is offering. A longing to have quenching of an dried and parched soul. An yearning to replace an lifeless Christian experience. An craving to be part of a movement that is more than an lifeless theory. “Then this is an evidence that Christ has wrought upon your heart, and created this sense of need in your soul, in order that He may be sought unto to do for you, through the endowment of the Holy Spirit, those things which it is impossible for you to do yourself.” [To Be Like Jesus” pg.350]

I know I long for these things. I know my sin ridden life thirsts for righteousness. I know my soul wants that which is beautiful, pure and Holy. But this quenching, this void that imminently wants to be filled, can only and must only be filled by the Holy Spirit. For as the Ten Virgins [Matthew 25] needed their vessels filled with the Holy Spirit in order to enter the wedding party, so to we need a daily “fill-up”. But this “fill-up” isn’t a patch work, its a transforming work, an quenching work that creates new motives, desires and thoughts.  

“I counsel you to by from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and shame of your nakedness amy not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.” Revelation 3:18