"As A Deer...!

While sitting in my office considering a subject for “teEn-MAIL”, I turned and looked out the window behind me to see three deer walking past. Two of them continued up a little incline where they began eating grass and leaves on the trees while one stood motionless as it looked directly at me. I continued to watch for several minutes, enjoying this sight of which I seem to never grow tired. The agility of deer to leap up over fences has always impressed me. Though their legs resemble long slender sticks, God created them with the ability to run with grace and clear fences from even a standing position. I have also been impressed by their sure footedness that allows them to negotiate steep hills. As I continued to watching these three deer I began to think of the some of the references to deer in the Psalms.

David compared God’s help to him as follows:
“(29) For by you I can run against a troop, and BY MY GOD I CAN LEAP OVER A WALL. … (33) HE MADE MY FEET LIKE THE FEET OF A DEER AND SET ME SECURE ON THE HEIGHTS.” ( Psalm 18:29 & 33 ESV)

I wonder how often David might have observed deer leaping and running about as he watched the sheep as he was growing up. Like me, could it have been a sight of which he never tired. The agility David possessed as a blessing of God was what he had observed among the deer that his God had created. As God provided for the ability of the deer to keep from becoming easy prey of its enemies, so had God provided for the escape of His servant David.

In one of the often quoted (and sung) Psalms of the sons of Korah we read…
“(1) AS A DEER longs for flowing streams, SO LONGS MY SOUL FOR YOU, O GOD. (2) MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR GOD, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?” ( Psalm 42:1-2 ESV)

Do we share that deep longing after God? Do we have a thirst that keeps drawing us to Him as the one to satisfy the deep needs of our soul? As the deer finds refreshment in living streams do we find refreshment of soul in the living God? As the deer needs that water to sustain life and is drawn to it, our soul needs God to sustain spiritual life. May our longing continually be for only God and His Will, yet at the same time still desiring more and more of a connection to Him in all aspects of our life.

Have a great day DRAWN INTO A DEARER RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD!
Carl

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