"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." (Psalm 42:1)
Missionaries accompanying Bedouin Shepherds on the Saharah dessert in the eighteen thirties recorded that during a lengthy sand storm they (Bedouins) were unable to see the night star in the sky, which was used as compass for directions. The shepherds would also release a deer that ran for miles through the storm and the caravan followed.
Approximately 20 miles further the deer stopped and began scratching the sand, on catching up with the deer the shepherds began digging at the same spot there locating much need water, to the missionaries surprise they found very large water sources.
So as the Psalmist, the shepherd boy David understood the innate built in gift of the deer to find water over long distances in the dryest of places.
This analogy in Psalms forty two means that in a spiritual dessert with a dry and thirsty situation, like the deer, a thirsty soul seasoned with a innate built in gift and as a child of the most high God is able to zoom in and locate God in barren waste land, hallelujah! What a powerful lesson from a shepherd warrior king David.
Fast forward and Looking at today's world that is becoming more and more a dry place with diminishing signs of precious godlness to quench one's own thirst, let's pray harder to develop, like the deer, an internal gift to satisfy our thirst for the living God.
"My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God!..." (Psalms 42:2)
To be able to zoom in, fro long distances and find Almighty God is vital for survival in these days when reception is low and deception great in the Earth.
Marcel and Jackie Bruff 🙏🏽
Walk Good in Christ
Amen amen