‘As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, Yehovah. My soul thirsts for Yehovah.’ Psalm 42:1-2
Imagine that you are walking down a long country road. The sun is so hot that your mouth is dry, and you are desperate for a drink. You have been walking for hours, your feet are sore and throbbing. If you don’t get a drink soon you will faint. You walk past someone who is drinking from a bottle of water. The clear, refreshing liquid is flowing out, spilling down their chin, as you look on in desperation. Now someone comes along and offers you $100. Kind though that is, it is not what you need. Someone else comes along and offers to buy you a meal. That too is not what you want and need. The one thing that you need at this moment, is a drink. Eventually you will reach the stage where you will say, ‘give me water or I will die!’ This is what the psalmist is saying. He realizes the one thing that he cannot live without, is Yehovah Himself. ‘Give me Yehovah or I will die! I cannot live without Him; I am desperate for Him.’ In the New Testament, we read the words of Yeshua: ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for Yehovah, welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life (John 4:13-14 AMP). No-one can survive for long without water – physical or spiritual – so make sure that you are refreshed by Yehovah daily too!