What are You Craving?
“1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.”
Your Bible may say that the “sons of Korah wrote this particular Psalm. However, many commentators (and I agree) believe this is another Psalm of David—written at the time he was in exile from Jerusalem because of the rebellion of his son, Absalom. If this is true, we see David longing not for the palace he had or the power he once enjoyed. Nor do we see him pining away for the popularity or position he once held. No, instead, we see him longing for the presence of the Lord!
We may not realize this, but David’s longings—the cravings of his very soul are ours as well. The great early church theologian, Augustine once said, “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in Thee.”
The problem?
Most of us haven’t got a clue what the underlying restlessness in our souls is all about! As a result, late at night we think we need noise, so we watch television. But when that doesn’t satisfy us, we go to the fridge and have a bowl of ice cream. Still, that does no good so we go online and peer into everyone else’s trivia on Facebook—still, the craving goes unmet. Finally, some of us will panic at how late it is and take some kind of medication to help force sleep upon our already weary souls only to wakeup more restless than ever because the yearning of our soul was left completely untouched.
Why?
Because it was for the Lord’s pleasure that we were created (see Revelation 4:11). Therefore, it is only when we are pleasing Him, spending time with Him that we find true satisfaction for our souls.