5.
My soul is thirsty for the living God
Psalm 41:2. What I am saying, that
as the hart pants after the water-brooks, so longs my soul after You, O God,
means this,
My soul is thirsty for the living God.
For what is it thirsty?
When shall I come and appear before God?
This it is for which I am thirsty, to
come and to appear before Him.
I am thirsty in my pilgrimage, in my running; I shall be filled on my arrival. But
When shall I come?
And this, which is soon in the sight of
God, is late to our
longing.
When shall I come and appear before God?
This too proceeds from that
longing,
of which in another place comes that cry,
One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
Wherefore so?
That I may behold
(he says)
the beauty of the Lord.
When shall I come and appear before the Lord?
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