Psalm 119:174

Psalm 119:174

Longing for Him

Longings are strange emotions. They usually represent something familiar that has been lost and that is now far away. We can long for home, or for the restoration of a broken relationship, or for a familiar voice or sight. It’s unusual to long for something we’ve never had or never experienced. That is one of the enigmas of heaven, it calls us and draws us and yet we’ve never been there, not one of us has seen it! Perhaps it is WHO is there that causes the longing, a genuine encounter with Jesus Christ immediately bonds us into relationship can create longings that grow more intense as time passes by.

If all of this is correct then we should not be surprised that we, like the psalmist, long for the salvation of the Lord, we long just to hear His voice, to experience His presence and to be lifted out of the pain and suffering of our earthly lives. That longing intensifies with experience and with age, the more fragile our lives become, the more we long to be with Him! The author of the Psalm did not have a personal relationship with Messiah, but he still experienced longing; his interaction with the Lord God was primarily through the law and in this he found comfort and at least familiarity. These legal instructions, dictated from heaven, were enough to establish the existence and the character of his God and thus he was able to believe that the best was yet to be. May it be so for us, there will be times when we struggle with our relationship with the Lord, and we may feel that He is very distant. May our longing for intimacy still find its fulfilment in the Word, let’s treasure those moments when we are comforted by the delight of hearing His voice and we know that His salvation draws near.  

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