Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Taking care of your soul”
Our Bible verse for today: “As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? … Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls, all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.” Psalm 42:1-2; 7
Our thought for today: “When we care for our soul we connect with God in a deep way.”
Psalm 42 has sometimes been referred to as “One of the great soul songs of the Psalms.” That’s a pretty good description. This is the song of a soul longing to connect with God in deep places. It is also the desperate cry of many of our souls.
Richard Foster once wrote, “Superficiality is the curse of our age.” That’s depressingly true. We live at such a fast pace, engulfed in so much noise and distraction and over-stimulation, that we don’t have the time or attention span to go deep with God. John Ortberg wrote, “The world conspires against our souls, keeping our lives superficial.”
And so our soul aches. It cries out for deep and meaningful time with God. Saint Augustine captured it perfectly when he famously wrote, “You have created us for yourself, oh God, and our hearts are restless, searching, until we find our rest in You.”
The soul was created for deep and meaningful fellowship with God. When that deep connection isn’t there, the soul is restless and empty, longing for that for which it was made. When we carve out the time to be with God, preferably first thing in the morning, the deepest need of our soul is being met.
I encourage you to start your day with quality time with God. Get up early if you have to. Get alone in a quiet place where you’re not likely to be disturbed. Sit quietly and enjoy just being in the presence of the Father. Read scripture, pray, meditate, and just let your soul soak it in as you connect with your heavenly Father in deep and meaningful ways. You soul is deep. God is deep. Deep calls to deep. Spend some time with Him today in those deep places.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 