Psalm 63:1 - Essential Communication

Psalm 63:1 “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.”

Communication is essential in life. I'm sure that you have noticed this already, but mis-communication causes problems. If you don't really hear the instructions your boss gives you, you'll find yourself in trouble. If you don't pay attention to the traffic signals while your are driving you'll end up in an accident. If you don't spend time communicating with your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend then that relationship will find itself falling apart. Communication is essential in everything, and that includes our walk with the Lord.

How often do we let our special time with God shorten or disappear when life becomes busy? How often do we subconsciously believe that since God is eternal one more day without our devotions just this once won't really matter?  Our communication with the Lord starts to suffer and then our lives start to suffer. Not immediately, not obviously. God doesn't take revenge on us for missing our daily devotional, but life has this tendency to try and overload us and its our prayer life that keeps our heads screwed on straight. When we are spending time with the Lord, then we find that we are better able to make decisions, to see to the heart of whatever issue we are dealing with, and to adjust our lives accordingly. We also have the advice that God gives us to rely on and that does far more to make our lives easier and run more smoothly than anything else.  When we neglect time with the Lord, everything else suffers because no longer can we rely on the God's advice. No longer do we have that peace of mind that only communication with the Most High can provide. When we let our time with the Lord lapse, then the puzzles and problems in our everyday life enmesh us and we no longer have the perspective we need to see our way out.

We need to seek after the Lord like a man in a desert seeks water. We should yearn for God, yearning for the next moment we hear His voice and jealously guarding our special time with Him. That time we spend with God determines how well our day goes. Those few minutes alone in prayer with the Most High refresh us more than any vacation and prepare us better for the day than we could do if we knew exactly what was going to happen. 

This week then, lets make an effort to re-establish our rapport with the Lord and start spending more time in prayer with Him, letting our daily devotions become the cornerstone of our day again rather than that morning cup of coffee or tea.

Early, my God, without delay,
I haste to seek Thy face;
My thirsty spirit faints away
Without Thy cheering grace.
                                          ^{Isaac Watts, 1719.}