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Jesus is…
The Living God
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SCRIPTURE READING:
Psalm 42:1-5
As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One
with shouts of joy and praise
among the festive throng.
Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
SIGNIFICANCE:
The LORD JESUS CHRIST supplies rivers of life to all who thirst for Him and drink of Him.
Dear Father, I am very humbled by the deep love King David expresses for You in today’s Scripture passage, and by David’s all-consuming passion to be with and communicate with You. With all my heart, I want to have that same thirsting within my soul for Your beloved Son, the Living God. I worship and honor Him, Who has been God with You, and all Life with You, for all eternity past, AND, Who created all life at the beginning of time, and is sustaining all life—now and for all eternity future! Further-more, I worship and honor the Living God for coming to earth to give His physical life, so that He could be raised back to eternal life, and provide the way for all who receive Him to have eternal life in Him. Hallelujah! Jesus is the God of Life! And, as David said, all of our hope is in Him. O Father, I pray that David’s insatiable cry, “When can I go and meet with [the Living] God?” will burn in the hearts of the Body of Christ today. I pray these things in His living name. Amen.
