March 16 2025
Psalm 63 verses 1-5
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.
Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and physicist, is credited with saying “There is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man”. We spend much of our lives trying to fill that hole. We try buying things, getting more money, having face lifts, and anything else we can think of. The problem is nothing works. It should be obvious to us if we look at the lives of some famous people. Many of them have taken drugs to help fill the hole when money and fame didn’t help. So many have died either from drugs or suicide. Obviously we are on the wrong path.
David tells us what fills that hole and how we will feel when that happens. “I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.“
Prayer: Caring God how disappointed you must be that we can’t see the path to you. Help us to truly understand that seeking you in our hearts and minds is what is needed. We must spend time with you and listen to your voice. We need your love and compassion on the way. AMEN
worry-less-journey 
Even as believers, we can find ourselves (at least I do🙄) going after the things the world tries to stuff into that God-shaped hole. I become aware of this in my own life shortly after the Internet does, when I start getting bombarded with ads for stuff the algorithms say I’m obsessed with, based on one or two purchases. 🤨
Lately I’m trying not to open ads that pop up, much less buy their stuff.
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