Psalm 63:1 (NLT)
1 O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My
soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary
land where there is no water.
God's lovingkindness is in itself, and in the account of
all the saints, better than life. It is our spiritual life, and that is better
than temporal life, Ps. 30:5. It is better, a thousand times, to die in God's
favour than to live under his wrath. David in the wilderness finds, by
comfortable experience, that God's lovingkindness is better than life; and
therefore (says he) my lips shall praise thee. [Matthew Henry Commentary]
"I don't believe in God, but I miss him."
This is the opening line from a book titled Nothing to Be
Afraid Of by the award-winning British writer, Julian Barnes. Barnes, who
describes himself as an agnostic, writes, "I was never baptized, never
sent to Sunday school. I have never been to a normal church service in my
life." And yet this agnostic intellectual still feels haunted by the
beauty of Christian art and music and by what he calls the "wake up call
to morality."
[Matt Woodley, Editor, PreachingToday.com; source: James
K. A. Smith, How (Not) to Be Secular (Eerdmans, 2014), pp. 4-5]
Our soul thirsts for God and longs to be with Him. Even
the author above who claims to be agnostic feels God tugging at his heart.
No comments:
Post a Comment