Deep Calls Unto Deep

Psalms 42:1-7

When I go on vacation there are some things that I truly miss while we are away. Family, church family, the comforts of home, and most of all the water. We have a well and to be honest with you I have never tasted any other water that can compare to ours.

Somehow I get the feeling that’s what David is trying to express here. He opens this Psalm In a very pointed way: “As the deer pants for the water so my soul longs after you oh God.” He obviously feels distant from God and has become parched as he is searching for Him. You can almost sense the panic in his voice as he fears that if he doesn’t find him soon he will die.

David also said in another Psalm “Oh taste and see that the Lord is good.” Psalms 34:8 Once you have tasted of the Lord nothing else can ever take His place. Just like grandmas biscuits, or your aunts chocolate cake, or mama’s fried chicken, there are a lot of substitutes, but nothing can compare to the real thing.

Water is essential to life. In fact the body consist of 60% of water and can only go about 72 hours without it, having detrimental effects like dehydration and then eventual death if what is lost in not replenished.

It’s no wonder when Jesus is describing how essential he is to the spiritual life says to a Samaritan woman that He is the living water and that whosoever drinks the water He gives shall never thirst again. It is a well springing up to everlasting life.

David’s longing to quench his thirst with the living fountain he found in God is so strong that he describes it in verse seven as “deep calls unto deep.” Out of the deepest recesses of his soul he longs to draw from the depth of Gods soul, which is none other than Jesus Christ. It is deeper than Jacobs well! (See John 4:11)

Proverbs 25:25 says “As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.” This good news is the Gospel brought down unto us in the person of Jesus Christ.

John 7:37-38 “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” What we know now that David did not know then is that we do not have to run far or look far to find God. According to Jesus all we have to do is look within.

David in 2 Samuel 23:15 longed for a drink of water from the wells of Bethlehem. He had been away from home and what he missed the most was the water. Many people are unhappy, dissatisfied, unfulfilled. They drown themselves in alcohol or narcotics to fill the void. Out of the depths of their soul they long for peace and contentment. What they really need is to go back home to God and drink from the never ending flow of living water found in Jesus Christ!

When I get back home from being gone a few days the first place I go to is the refrigerator. That first sip reminds me of how good it is to be home and as Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz said “There is know place like home!” Jesus Christ is our true home and only He can refresh and replenish the soul.

Are you thirsty?

Revelation 22:17 “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness. They shall be filled! Matthew 5:8

Pastor Robby