The God whose glory fills the heavens longs to fill our hearts with His light.

God does not renew the person we pretend to be.
God renews the real person we dare to bring before Him.

David awakens to something greater than the danger
confronting him: the God who surrounds him like a shield.

There are seasons when God feels far away and our souls ache for a sense of his presence. Psalms 42-43 give us words for those seasons, inviting us to bring our thirst, our questions, our memories, even our discouragement, to God.

We live in a world that can feel impersonal, fragmented, and uncertain of who—or what—we can ultimately depend upon. David gives us a different vision: a Person to know, a Center around which to build our lives, and a Face to seek.

We don't know everything the journey will bring, but we know the One who goes with us.

Whatever life brings us, we can bring it to God. And sometimes the hardest thing to bring to God is simply our need.