Thirsty?

           Can you ever have too much of a good thing? My life has been dotted with medical concerns over the past 40 years that have resulted in a pill box which contains about 14 pills everyday. Some of them, I have been on for almost 20 or more years and some only four or five years or even less. My recent stay in the hospital was due to two medications that were silently killing me and I didn't know it. It turns out that the high potassium levels were caused by a blood pressure medication and a diuretic. I had been on the blood pressure medication for a number of years. The two pills have been removed from my daily dose of medications. While the medication had once provided a reduction in my blood pressure, the medication, Losartan, was now taking its toll with my potassium and had to be removed. It was once a good thing but now turns out to be a bad thing for me. There are somethings however, that you can never receive too much of such as your communion with God. Psalm 42:1-2 says, “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?”

           It is always a peaceful scene to see a deer drinking at a brook. I haven't seen that many deer at brooks myself, but have watched other animals as they would come into the barnyard after spending the day in the field eating grass. Their first stop was the watering trough. You had had make sure that it was full when they arrived as a herd was going to drink it dry in a matter of a an hour our so. The Psalmist here makes the comparison of the thirsty “hart” with the life of the believer. Our souls long for the fellowship and communion that only God can fill. You can try to fill up your life with material things but in the end they won't fill the void that exists in your soul. You can get too much macaroni and cheese or too many possessions, or too many baked beans but you can never get too much of God. There have been so many times that my own heart has longed for more of God's presence and then I blow it. Something will happen to break my fellowship and I seem to be back at square one. Satan knows the tricks that will keep moving your attention away from God. It is called the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life. They are the same tricks he used in the Garden of Eden and the same tricks that he used in the temptation of our Lord Jesus Christ In the wilderness. Last year was indeed a tough year for many people but one thing was for sure, each one of us had more time to talk to God and to be in His presence. God has His ways whether you like them or not, to get our attention. The question is, what is the main thing that you thirst after? What is it that you long for most in your life? Take heed to the lesson of the Psalmist in the above passage and long after that sweet communion with God and realize His presence in, not only the world, but in your own life. Do you long after Him as the hart longs after the water brook? Praise God today that He is only a prayer away. Come to the stream and drink.