What quenches our thrist?

Greetings:
When we are really thirsty, what does it feel like?
In the midst of the typical southern Indiana hot and humid summer months, we can almost 'spit cotton' as my grandmother used to say.
What quenches our thirst when we are extremely thirsty?
Is it Gatorade, Pepsi, or water that satisfies?
It's probably water that satisfies more than anything.
How about being thirsty for God or the things of God.
What can quench that thirst?
Look at Psalm 63:1 (NIV), it reads, “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water."
If we have been a Christian for any amount of time, we know that spiritual passion, sight, and affections sort of come and go.
At times our sense of spiritual realities can be strong and vibrant. Other times, our hearts feel like they have lead weights attached to them and we find ourselves longing for God to visit us once again and to bring refreshment.
These seasons of “spiritual drought” find intimate expression in many of the Psalms.
David often cried out to God in times where his soul seemed like dust, and he yearned to be refreshed by the presence of the Lord.
Other psalmists expressed their longing to have their parched souls to be replenished by the Lord .
Read Psalm 42 if you want to understand those who have tasted of the goodness of Christ and know know what it means to be without that taste.
The Psalm starts off introducing us to a picture…that of a deer.
“As the deer pants, so my soul pants…my soul thirsts for God”, it says.
So we've got a deer and it does not say anything about the deer running or being lost. It says that the deer is parched. So in our minds take a deer and put it in the middle of the desert and that’s where we are at.
The psalmist is talking about thirsting for God with an animal-like ravenous thirst. The dry mouthed, hot, sweaty, horrible taste, foamy saliva, must drink or die kind of thirst.
And David says, “I thirst like that…for God”.
Spiritual drought, though a persistent and unwelcome visitor, is not something with which we must constantly live. There are Biblical means by which we can, by grace, put ourselves in the way of refreshment.
We can be restored to once again feel the joy of our salvation.
We pray to God to show us the place where our spiritual thirst can be quenched, refreshed and soothed.
Let us forsake the stale, dirty water offered by the world’s broken cisterns or wells.
The water pulled up from those earthly places may temporarily wet the craving of the throat, but it can never quench the thirsting of our souls.
Look to God's Word for true refreshment during those dry times and receive the living waters that the psalmist was talking about.
Be blessed.