the spiritual yearning

Sometimes in life, we just feel not close to God, and in all these, we can feel a deep surge in our hearts to want to draw closer to Him, to feel His love, His presence, His joy, His peace and His grace again. And this yearning is deep, driven by the knowing that He is the one God that can really help us in all our situations of this world, to bring us up and out of the drowning ocean of the overwhelming sins and shames of ourselves and the vast of ocean of the things of this world that drowns us and that is when we really desire to to drown instead in God's presence rather than drown in the things of this world. Just like the psalmist King David said that my whole being longs for You, the whole of ourselves yearns for God in a dry and parched land where there is no water. That parched land is our soul when we are far from God. The psalmist writes that His love is better than life. Life here might mean anything to us, more money, bigger house, bigger car, more power and influence, better gadgets and the psalmist describes His love as better than all of these. Indeed, pull me closer to You.. its all I want.

Psalm 63

1 You, God, are my God,

    earnestly I seek you;

I thirst for you,

    my whole being longs for you,

in a dry and parched land

    where there is no water.

2 I have seen you in the sanctuary

    and beheld your power and your glory.

3 Because your love is better than life,

    my lips will glorify you.

4 I will praise you as long as I live,

    and in your name I will lift up my hands.

5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;

    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

6 On my bed I remember you;

    I think of you through the watches of the night.

7 Because you are my help,

    I sing in the shadow of your wings.

8 I cling to you;

    your right hand upholds me.

9 Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;

    they will go down to the depths of the earth.

10 They will be given over to the sword

    and become food for jackals.

11 But the king will rejoice in God;

    all who swear by God will glory in him,

    while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

Closer by Bethel Live

Verse:

Your love has ravished my heart

And taken me over, taken me over

And all I want is to be

With You forever, with You forever

Chorus 1:

Pull me a little closer

Take me a little deeper

I want to know Your heart

I want to know Your heart

‘Cause Your love is so much sweeter

Than anything I’ve tasted

I want to know Your heart

I want to know Your heart

Bridge:

Ooh, Ooh how great your love is for me

Ooh, Ooh how great is your love

Chorus 2:

Pull me a little closer

Take me a little deeper

I want to know Your heart

I want to know Your heart

‘Cause Your love is so much stronger

Than anything I’ve faced and

I want to know Your heart

I want to know Your heart