Five amazing remedies for a very thirsty soul
“As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. I thirst for God, the living God.” (Ps. 42:1)
There is such a thing as a thirsty soul.
When life becomes boring, unattractive, and trivial.
When relationships become dry and passionless.
When days crawl by and possessions become a bother.
The thirsty soul is longing for something that satisfies, that slakes a thirst for reality, truth, and fulfillment.
David felt that. Years of running from Saul and his army had squeezed the life out of him like a dry lemon.
Think about these five key ingredients to a well-watered soul:
Regulate your social media intake.
Social media's job is to activate us toward the natural world. We forget to stay in contact with our souls.
Endless scrolling, shopping, and posting take up all of our time and leave us empty.
Feeling dry as a cracker? Get off of the “doom-scrolling” and engage with real people all over again.
2. Start to celebrate again.
Dry, lifeless routine gets old and stale. You start going through the motions.
Life was meant to be celebrated: a gorgeous sunset, a deep-blue spring sky, an azalea petal, or a white sandy beach.
Celebrate life. You could be lifeless.
Celebrate kids and family. You could be totally alone and unknown in this world.
Make every day a parade, a party, of activity, meals, and conversations. Celebrate it.
3. Go to a happy church.
Churches can be mighty dry. When the choir looks like they all have life support under their robes. When you start fighting sleep at every sermon.
Happy church.
People who are laughing and excited to see each other. People who sing loudly and with gusto. People who let out a Fred Flintstone “yabba-dabba-doo” when their car drives into the parking lot.
Church should refill your spirit and soul for the entire week of tough, dry, maybe grind-it-out work.
Don’t leave the church empty.
4. “Deep calls to deep”
David used this phrase to describe how the thirsty deer is rejuvenated.
It is when you reconnect with your soul. It is when your soul reconnects with God.
God begins to speak to us again. We get hope again. His Word, the Bible, is like God’s voice speaking directly to our inner man when we read it.
We sit quietly before daylight and softly worship, pouring out our souls in adoration before our Creator and His Son.
Our prayers are heartfelt and full of boldness, confidence, and faith.
“Deep is calling unto deep.”
5. You get healed from a “soul wound.”
Trauma leaves our souls wounded. Rejection, attack, and abandonment leave us crippled and limping in our soul.
Ask God to pour His oil of gladness on your wounded soul. Forgive the person who wounded you.
Rise up out of the coffin of anger and vengeance.
Bring that person with you into God’s throne room and pray for them.
Now, you can take a deep, long drink of God’s delightful river.
You will thirst no more.