| Good morning everyone, Our theme for this month: “Deep discipleship” Our Bible verse for today: “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me. The Lord will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night – a prayer to the God of my life.” Psalm 42:7-2 (CSB) Our thought for today: “Deep calls to deep” God is deep and He calls to the deep places in our heart. In their great book “The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God,” Brent Curtis and John Eldredge describe God as “The Great Romancer.” They explain that God loves us deeply, passionately, and He is always romancing us, calling out to us, drawing us to Himself. We know this. We sense it deep within us. Curtis and Eldredge observed, “You were made for something more. You know it.” This calling and drawing from God touches us at the deepest place in our heart. This is what Solomon was referring to when he wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:11, “He has put eternity in their hearts.” There is a place in the human heart that can only be filled by God. Intuitively we know this. Down deep we just know there must be a God and we want to know Him; we want to be in a good relationship with Him; and we want to spend eternity with Him. That’s simply the way God has designed the human heart and that is why every culture that has ever existed in the history of the world has always had a belief in the supernatural. The superscript in my Bible, which appears above Psalm 42 (sort of like a title for the Psalm,) reads, “Longing for God”. That’s what the entire Psalm is about. The writer was longing for God. In verses 1-2 the writer describes thirsting for God like a deer thirsts for a cool drink of water from a cold mountain stream. In verses 3-6 he writes of how in the middle of trials and struggles he seeks God even more. Then in verse 7-8 and 11 he writes of finding God and getting relief and comfort as a result. As it turned out (as verses 7-8 suggested,) all the while, while he thought he was seeking God, God was actually calling to him, drawing him, romancing him. Whenever we respond to this deep calling from God we are on the road to deep discipleship. The more time and effort we put into our response to God, the deeper we will go and the more we will experience Him. Prayer, Bible study, quiet reflection, worship, service, fellowship with other Christians, are all ways of going deeper with God. The more of those disciplines we practice, the deeper we go with God. Tomorrow, I will tell you about another way. God bless, Pastor Jim (If you like what you’re reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville |
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