December 1, 2025

Verse of the Day

Monday

12/01/2025

Psalm 42:1 (KJV)
¹  As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

 Many of you know that my life verse is Philippians 3:10. The words “That I may know Him…” ring in my heart. I often contemplate them, mull over them, although certainly not as much as I should or need to.

 I sincerely believe our verse today as well as Psalm 63:1 is David’s version of Paul’s statement in Philippians 3. David longed for, chased after God. Not some figment of the imagination, but a personal relationship with the God of Heaven.

 I think it is the key to David being called a man after God’s own heart. David sought what God has always wanted, to have an intimate relationship with us. It is the reason God created us, to fellowship with us. The whole reason satan disrupted Adam and Eve by tempting them, was to drive a wedge between man and God.

 It is why in Genesis 3:15 that God told the devil that his head would be bruised. He was prophesying of the blow to be delivered at Calvary. God made a way for us to return to fellowship with Him through His Son, Jesus. God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, all want that relationship.

 The question is do you. Not the casual “fire insurance” of not going to hell, but the desire to walk with God. To “know” Him intimately. Are you satisfied with a casual “lukewarm” relationship with the one who died for you. That seems to be an ungrateful idea. Jesus, bleed and died, to bring us back into full fellowship, to be at one with God. We owe Him more than lukewarmness.

 I believe we need to “pant”, to thirst after God in a way that drives us to him. That is how David got the moniker of a man after God’s own heart.

 What about us?

 Be Blessed,

  

Bro. Dewayne