Pure Panting
“As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.” Psalms 42:1, 4 NKJV Just as everyone knows that the panting for the water brooks represents the desire for life, man in search for life’s entertainment instead of the entertaining life is distracted from the source of true refreshments. Even before these realities came to the psalmist’s remembrance, he did confess that he used to go the way of the multitude in search of entertainment without life. Whereas, the essence of the resurrection power is the provision of life, and the freedom from path pants instead of pure pants. Life happens to everyone as we pant in the paths for the source of livelihood, relevance in the community, and productivity in workplaces. But do we really have to b...