Ps.63:1 – God, You are my God; I shall be watching for You; my soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and exhausted land where there is no water.
David compares his journey through the difficulties of life as to being like a long trek through a scorching desert. David says that all of the troubles he had faced in life were comparable to an exhausting trip across a desert. Just as our throat is parched and our whole being cries out for water when we are thirsty, there is a place of dryness of the soul when all you can do is cry out for God. Have you ever come to that place? Not a lot of people have. Most stay unaware of the thirsting of their soul and live in a state of spiritual dehydration. The Amplified Bible brings out our unawareness of our spiritual dryness in Rev.22:17 – “The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost”. Here is how Jonathan Edwards describes this thirst.
“Now when a man finds Jesus Christ, he is like a man that has been traveling in the desert till he is ready to perish with thirst, and at last finds a river of cool and clear water; ’tis exceeding refreshing. Christ was once actually typified by a river of water that was miraculously caused to flow in the dry deserts of Arabia for the refreshing and satisfying [of] God’s people when they were almost consumed with thirst, even by that stream of water out of the rock; for as the Apostle says, “that rock was Christ”. This stream of water issued out of the rock that was in Horeb, which word signifies “a dry place.” This was a river in a dry place…Christ is as a river of water, because there is such a fullness in him for the satisfaction of the needy thirsty soul…”
You would have to say we have been passing through a difficult stretch for quite a while now. Our greatest need is to become aware that we need a drink of living water. Are you there yet? If so just cry out, Jesus will be your river in a dry land.
