Psa 42:1 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
Psa 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
Only God can fully satisfy. But it’s more than that. The flowing streams are essential for life. Without them, the deer will die. Our souls are made to be in communion with God. Without that there is death. It’s interesting to note that it isn’t ‘trickling streams’ but ‘flowing streams’. There is an abundance here of life in the Lord.
Psa 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psa 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
Only God can fully satisfy. But it’s more than that. The flowing streams are essential for life. Without them, the deer will die. Our souls are made to be in communion with God. Without that there is death. It’s interesting to note that it isn’t ‘trickling streams’ but ‘flowing streams’. There is an abundance here of life in the Lord.
It seems the psalmist is unable to come to the temple to worship, “when shall I appear before you” and is in a place where he is mocked for his desire and pursuit of the Lord. See how continually they scoff at him – “day and night” he weeps.
His enforced absence from God’s house reminds him how much he treasures it. This enforced ‘fast’ that he undergoes reminds him to treasure the provision of God in the temple. The access he has there to God’s presence. How much more should we treasure the free access we have to the heavenly courts of God. How much more should we yearn after the courts of the Lord. May we always “Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.” May we truly be holy and blameless before him.
His enforced absence from God’s house reminds him how much he treasures it. This enforced ‘fast’ that he undergoes reminds him to treasure the provision of God in the temple. The access he has there to God’s presence. How much more should we treasure the free access we have to the heavenly courts of God. How much more should we yearn after the courts of the Lord. May we always “Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.” May we truly be holy and blameless before him.
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