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Introduction
C.S.Lewis Quote
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
Was it true of us, prior to salvation that we had a desire that the world could not satisfy?
What does a life with a desire that cannot be satisfied look like?
1: First, a life with a desire that cannot be satisfied seeks to fulfill the desire.
Everyone is born to desire something or someone.
Things desired can be material, wealth, honor, recognition, importance, money, etc...
Many live lives in pursuit of these things.
We are born to desire things that fulfill desires we have.
Definition of Desire: A longing for something to take delight in.
We live lives where desires are directly connected to things we deem necessary.
We desire food.
We need food.
We desire water.
We need water.
We desire water.
We need water.
The same goes for our souls.
We desire friends.
We need friends.
We desire a relationship.
We need a relationship.
We desire to have a family.
We need a family.
And I am not talking about absolute necessity but I am talking about the reason why we pursue these things.
Of course some
We pursue them because we desire them and feel a need to have them.
Seeking these things comes from wanting or desiring them.
But there is a problem.
Beneath all the desires there is a desire that none of these things can fulfill.
2: Second, a life with a desire that cannot be satisfied settles for the temporary over the eternal.
Every person bears the image of God.
Saved or unsaved.
Much like the woman at the well in John chapter 4, apart from Jesus Christ we seek in vain what only God can fulfill.
Apart from Christ we settle for the temporal.
Which means that it leaves us with the deception that the desire we have as image bearers can be satisfied without God.
This is why people know in themselves that they are empty.
This is why people pursue relationships that fall short in fulfilling what only God can fulfill.
So they live lives in continual pursuit with no end and no solution to what lays beneath in every person.
They settle.
They live lives void of true joy and fulfillment.
And the fruit of that is their settling for things that have no eternal worth.
For some, they walk in circles.
Going from one destructive pattern to another.
From one destructive relationship to another.
Others may have settled for a nice family, with a nice house but are left with hope for this life only.
They live thirsty and live only for the earthly and remain empty without living water.
3: Lastly, a life with a desire that cannot be satisfied suffers with laments
This Psalm today is a psalm of trust.
A lament
It reveals to us what happens when one has found God as their only satisfaction.
3: Lastly, a life with a desire that cannot be satisfied suffers with lament.
It is an inspired Psalm that reveals what happens to someone who has found the ultimate fulfillment that satisfies the desire that was made for another world.
More specifically, God who alone stands as the living waters.
Background
Heading: A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
This psalm comes with a heading.
The heading reveals that David was the writer of the Psalm and that he was in the wilderness of Judah.
In the book of 1 Samuel we are introduced to David as being the son of Jesse.
Israel at the time demanded a king which was a rejection of God being their king.
We see this in .
Though done unfavorably, God gave them a king who’s name was Saul.
Saul ended up being disobedient to God.
So through the prophet Samuel, God would favorably anoint a king which happened to be David because God had rejected Saul.
Saul’s reign would end unfavorably and David would transition in as king over God’s people.
Saul’s reign would end unfavorably and David would transition in as king over God’s people.
Saul, who was chosen because of the people wanting a king like the other nations, we see in Scripture David becoming king after him and he was chosen favorably by God.
During David’s reign he would write psalms.
Psalms were songs or poems written to express, worship, praise and even laments.
David wrote many of them in the book of Psalms.
Though he was a king, David was a worshipper and a writer of worship.
He wrote many psalms dealing with lament.
But he also wrote about trust, praise and worship to the Lord.David was called the sweet psalmist in .
This particular psalm was written as a psalm of trust.
And it was written while he was in the wilderness of Judah.
Some have pointed out two possible reasons for David being in the wilderness of Judah around the time of this Psalm being written.
1: Saul’s persecution.
2: Absalom’s Coup.
In the first, Saul who was their first king, he had became jealous of David and sought to kill him.
After an attempt on his life, David had fled to the wilderness.
In the second, Absalom, David’s own son, sought to overthrow David because of political ambition.
David left Jerusalem and fled to the wilderness.
Some scholars say verses 2 and 11 give us hints as to when this was written.
Psalm 63:
2 Samuel 7:
2 Samuel
Some believe that this was after the time of God making a covenant with David that spoke of one of his sons who would sit on his throne forever which is found in .
Afterwards in ,
Verse 2 may have been speaking of that time where David sat before the Lord.
Which would have had the ark of the covenant there.
Which would make sense of David speaking of God’s power and glory.
The second clue is found in verse 11.
God made a covenant with David that stated that his son would build a house for the Lord and that one of his sons would sit upon the throne of David forever and ever ().
After this unconditional covenant was made, David went into the tent and sat before the Lord and prayed ().
David calls himself here “the king.”
Which he would have done after Saul’s death.
Whether it was Saul or Absalom, what we do know is that David the king was not where he was supposed to be.
He should have been on his throne, not in the wilderness.
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