3 My tears have been my food day and night
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:3 (LSB)
Those whose hearts are bound to the pursuit of Christian maturity have long understood that it their passion which is their primary fuel or determinant which makes the process from becoming shipwrecked due attacks from the enemy or simply the remnants of our old nature seemingly coming out of hiding at the worst possible times to cause havoc in our Christian walks. This passion is seen in the Word of God in David’s heart which was stirred after God and would not allow anything to come between him and God, so shouldn’t our passion be today as we grow in Christ?
On the other hand there is a vast difference in tone between Today’s Christians and Psalm 42. Think, for instance, about this and David. Look at how he sought after the Lord throughout the book of Psalms. The language of David is found throughout the Old Testament, beginning with Abraham and tracing down from there. The gap between them angus, between the tone of their lives and ours, is that they sought Him and found Him and sought Him still, and sought Him again and sought Him more and more. Their seeking never stopped. We believe in Him, accept Him, and then we tend to seek Him no more.
We must not deify these Old Testament saints, but as we read about what they did it is indeed music to our hearts. They are examples for us. Their thirst for God is also seen in the Apostle Paul who said, “Yea doubles, and I count all things bug loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whim I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ” (Philippians 3:8). Is that how we see our relationship with our Lord and our God? No matter where Paul was in his Christian experience, he reached for what god had before him. <Continue reading post>