Meditation Verse: Psalm 42 \u201cMy soul thirsts for God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a child in church, I always thought the song taken from this psalm seemed a bit odd \u2013 \u201cwhy are we singing about out of breath deers?\u201d But this is the Psalmist\u2019s way of expressing how thirsty he is to spend time with God. Thirsty as if having just been running and needing to quench the thirst by glugging down a drink of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs the deer pants for the water, So my soul longs after You.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You alone are my heart’s desire And I long to worship You.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You alone are my strength, my shield,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n To You alone may my spirit yield.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You alone are my heart’s desire And I long to worship You.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The rest of the verse and chorus then answer this longing. It reminds me a bit of our Renew morning prayer, \u201cBless the Lord oh my soul! And all that is within me bless His holy name.\u201d <\/em>With everything I have, all that is within me bless His name, not just a whimper but the best that we can give! Let\u2019s be thirsty to spend time with God this week and if you\u2019ve already quenched your thirst, praise Him with all you have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meditation Verse: Psalm 42 \u201cMy soul thirsts for God.\u201d As a child in church, I always thought the song taken<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwnorthblog.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}