Many Churches around the world have sung, in worship, the song “As the Deer.” This song reflects the words of Psalm 42:1-2 , that reads, “ As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God." In the song, we sing the words, “I love you more than any other, so much more than anything.” So, with those thoughts combined, I must take an honest assessment and ask “do I really thirst for the living God?” “Do I really want him more than anything in this world or love him more than anybody I love?” We must take “spiritual inventory” and be candid and honest to see if our level of intimacy with Jesus and our depth of relationship with God is at the proper level of “thirsting” and “longing.” That is, do we really crave and yearn for our time with God? Do we want to love him, seek him, serve him, obey him and worship him? I am not talking about just “a devotional time” with God where I read a short Scripture passage and then
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