USGN Article  - October 2004
Written by Barbi Franklin

"Satisfy Your Thirsty Soul"

Many of us can remember a time after we got saved when our hearts were young and hopeful.  Our dreams and visions were vibrant and we were filled with the zealous love for God like that of a child.  An innocent, first-love filled our newly regenerated hearts. 

Perhaps the years have taken their toll on your hopes and dreams, and your child-like love and spiritual passions have been squelched by disappointments and crushing blows.  Rest assured, God and His Word are not simply religious sentiments of piety and parched jargon. 

God is a person.  His Word is alive.  He longs to show you His love and compassion.  He wants to speak intimately to you right now in your current circumstances.  If you wait and listen, He will.  If you seek Him, you will find Him and He will satisfy your thirsty soul.  He will breathe life into your dry and weary bones. 

Years ago when you got saved, that initial experience wasn’t all God wanted for you, though that would be far more than enough.  God wants a moment by moment, intimate relationship with you.  I love how A. W. Tozer expresses the longings that we should cultivate right now in our walk with the Lord: 

            “Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God.  They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out.

            Moses rose to make the daring request, ‘I beseech thee, show me thy glory.’  God was pleased by this display of ardor, and the next day called Moses into the mount, and made all His glory pass before him.  David’s life was a torrent of spiritual desire, and his psalms ring with the cry of the seeker and the glad shout of the finder.  Paul confessed the mainspring of his life to be his burning desire after Christ, ‘that I may know Him.’

            I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God.  The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate.  Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.  Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people.  He waits to be wanted.” 

If you draw close to God, He will come close to you.  He will whisper clearly and fulfill your desires if you call, wait, and listen!
 

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