You're All I Want

You're All I Want - Psalm 73

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

2:01 PM

Psalm 73:25-26 King James Version (KJV)

25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

the righteous know that only God is in heaven and He is all they need on earth (73:25). Even when prosperity fails and death approaches, his security is solid because it depends on God (73:26)

Desire A sense of longing for or wanting something.

Psalm 42:1-2 King James Version (KJV)

42 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

42:1 deer pants for … water. Because its life depends on water—especially when being pressed by hunters, as the psalmist was by his oppressors.

Psalm 143:6 King James Version (KJV)

6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Pass me Not - Fanny Crosby

Thou the spring of all my comfort,

More than life to me;

Whom have I on earth beside Thee?

Whom in heaven but Thee?

His presence may not always be noticeable, but it is always enough.

26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

73:26 My flesh … heart. My whole being (see 84:2). portion. Since the psalmist was a Levite, the Lord was his portion in the promised land in that he lived by the people’s tithes dedicated to the...

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+73&version=KJV>

Can't depend on politics / political systemsCan't look to educationCan't even look to ourselves We must look to Jesus / look to the hills from whence our help comes / to whom else can we go thou hast the words of life.

John 6: 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.

From <https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+6&version=KJV>