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Day 32 - Come Meet the Soul-Thirst-Quencher! Part 2

Scripture:
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, my God. My
soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
- Psalm 42:1-2

Reflection:
Our soul’s deep inner longing and thirst can only be quenched by the One Who
created it: “God, the living God.” And, our souls will perpetually desire and ask
if ever consciously out of God’s Presence: “When can I go and meet with God?”

God, in His fearfully wonderful design of us (Psalm 139:14), has made it so that
our ultimate desire and yearning is for Him, to include placing His Spirit
(Genesis 2:7) and His Kingdom within us (Luke 17:21). It is from the creative
act of God making us both, male and female, in His image and likeness (Genesis
1:27) that we all “live, move and have our Being in Him” (Acts 17:28). Hence,
no one and no thing can ever satisfy or satiate our thirst-need, first and foremost
for God, but God: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37). “Seek first the Kingdom of God
and His righteousness and all else [that we need and rightly thirst for] will be
given to [us]” (Matthew 6:33).

Prayer:
Beloved Lord God, please help us stop our vain searching and seeking externally
for the things of this world that are guaranteed to rot and rust and erode away.
Still us, as well, from pursuing ungodly relationships that will only leave us
empty, hurt, bruised and battered and possibly even dead. Amen

About the Contributor:

Rev. Dr. Janae Moore
Mt. Zion AME Church, Severn, MD

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