Have you ever had a craving? You know what I am talking about, you are in bed and you are reading a good book and suddenly, the words on the page dissolve before your eyes and reform themselves into the form of a pizza with all the toppings you love. Your stomach growls and your mouth salivates. You go to the refrigerator hoping to tame the roaring beast within you with something near at hand. You consider the leftover goulash you had for supper and your stomach turns up its nose. It must be a pizza, nothing less and nothing else.
In Psalm 42, the Psalmist has a craving. His craving is not for food. This is a craving of the heart and not of the stomach. He yearns for God and God alone – a desire to be in the presence of the Living God. While I think most of us can identify with the craving I described above, I am not sure all that many of us know what it is to long for God. The Psalmist describes his thirst in in picturesque language. The danger can be that we are so mesmerized by the vividness of the picture, we miss the intensity of the Psalmists need for the presence of God. I. The Fact of His Desire (v. 1-2) II. The Source of His Yearning (v. 3-5)
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Dr. Don has over fourty years of Pastoral experience. He planted churches with Galilean Baptist Mission for twelve years (3 churches) and served as Senior Pastor in three other churches. He retired as the Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church of Lansing, Michigan in 2020. He...