Deer Pants for Water

                                                    

 

‘’ As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God.” Psalm 42:1 NKJV

 

The deer’s steps become slower. He walks through the woods, panting.  A deer only pants when his body is ready to overheat. A panting deer is desperate. Without water he will die.

 

In Psalm 42 the psalmist says that his soul pants after God. The soul, the deepest part of us, is desperate for God. Have you ever had a panting soul? Have you known an emptiness inside that could not be satisfied? Maybe you tried to fill the emptiness with possessions, relationships,  alcohol, or something else. But at the end of the day, nothing satisfied. 

 

If we are honest, we all have been there. But there is good news.

 

Jesus said in John 10:10, “I have come that they may have life, and that they have it more abundantly. “ In John 14:6, He says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

 

There is a God-shaped vacuum in everyone’s soul. It can only be filled with one thing: God. And there is only one way to God and that is through Jesus.

 

God is holy, and we are sinful. Jesus came and died for our sins. If we confess our sins and surrender our lives to Jesus, He forgives our sin and comes into our lives.

 

The same Jesus who died for us is the One who desires to give us abundant life. He doesn’t promise an easy life. But He does promise to be with us as we walk through life. 

 

Is your soul thirsty today? Turn to Jesus.  He alone can quench the thirsty soul.