Ch 2: Desire vs. Delight? (Pt 2)

I begin this post with a quote from the top of the chapter's second page:

"Godly people are seen yearning, longing, hungering, thirsting, and fainting for God. They are also seen enjoying, delighting in, and being satisfied in God" (24).

This is totally different than the understanding of godliness as almost totally confined to what a person does. This sentence, which I think is biblical, shows that godliness must extend to our emotions as well. In fact, a person who does not enjoy God is being disobedient and therefore, not godly.

Next, I read these portions of the psalms and seriously wonder if that describes me:

"As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God" (42:1-2a).

"O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you" (63:1-3).

Ask yourself, like I've been asking myself, Do I yearn for, thirst for God? Is my compulsion towards God similar to a dehydrated person compulsion for water? Do I seek for God like men with empty canteens search for water in a desert? Can I honestly say I'd rather have God's love for me than life itself?

My answers to these questions, which reflect the drought my heart is experiencing towards God, and how fake I feel when trying to obey verses like Psalm 37:4 or Philippians 4:4 have become some of the reasons why I'm reading this book.