Thirsting for God
G. Hunsworth, M. A. Psalm 42:1-11 As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.… I. MAN NEEDS GOD. 1. Think how helpless we are in the presence of all the mysteries of life without God. 2. Think of the far greater mysteries of a moral and spiritual kind by which we are surrounded; how the wicked appear to triumph over the righteous, how the kingdom of darkness seems likely to gain the victory over the kingdom of light; and then ask what rest we can find, unless we believe and know that God ruleth over all, and that He will yet bring all things into subjection unto Him. 3. Think of the awful power of sin, how it enslaves the soul and oppresses the heart and troubles the conscience; how it spreads like fire and like pestilence, carrying death and desolation wherever it goes; and then ask how we are to be delivered from this terrible destroyer, except by the power of the living God. 4. Think how we need God in all the temptations and trials, the perplexities and cares, the business and toil and responsibility. II. GOD GIVES HIMSELF TO MAN. Just as He gives light and beauty for the eye, sound and music for the ear, bread for the hunger and water for the thirst of the body, so He gives Himself, for the satisfaction of the soul. It remains for us to abide in fellowship with Him, to walk all the day in the light of His countenance, and to make our life on earth a pledge and earnest of the nobler and diviner life of heaven. (G. Hunsworth, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: {To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. WEB: As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.