The Soul-full life.

Are we living “soul-full” lives?

Psalm 63:1  A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Is the world still a source of satisfaction for us?  Do we still run to the wells of the world and drink from the water that it offers us, or do we now realize that it is a dry and weary land where there is no water?  Then, and only then, will we earnestly seek God and our souls thirst be quenched.

So many Christians bring partial worship, partial desire, for the Lord because they still seek other sources to quench their soul’s thirst, not realizing that it is only the Lord who can truly quench our thirst.

John 4:13-14  Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14  but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

Have we not realized that yet?  That if we allow the world to quench our thirst we will just keep looking for more, and will never be satisfied?  But the water the Lord gives us is so satisfying to our soul that we will not look for any other source.  Something that is eternally satisfying quenches even our temporal thirst.

Psalm 63:2-4  I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 3 Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. 4 I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

Have we seen the Lord?  Maybe not an actual vision, but with the eyes of our heart - do we actually see God alive, working in every area and aspect of our life?  Is His love really better than what this life has to offer, better than any other love?

Then, and only then, can we claim to be glorifying and praising God.  To many the world, and what it has to offer, is still so alive and enticing that we don’t realize that it robs us of the joy and peace that comes from knowing, seeing and experiencing God alive in our lives.  Very often I still pray “Lord, show yourself alive to me”, because I know that the gold and glitters of this world still shine bright before me.  God must be so real, so alive, and His love so rich and refreshing that it pushes away the things of the world.

Psalm 63:5  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

We must be so satisfied with God, that we just sit back, relax and say “Aaaahhhh”…to the point that anything else offered to us by the world we reject.  No matter how tasty, how enticing, the offer may be, because we are so full of God, of His love and goodness the offer of the world does not mean anything to us anymore.

May all our souls be filled today.