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Feb 8, 2006
Deep Calls Out to Deep
From: http://www.abarim-publications.com/Arie/Bible/Psalm42v7.html
Psalm 42
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Have you ever been really thirsty? Parched lip, dry mouth thirsty? Every fiber in your being crying out for water?
I love the following song - was feeling especially dry and so started to sing it to myself.
All Who Are Thirsty
Words & music: Brenton Brown & Glenn Robertson
© 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/EIRE)
All who are thirsty
All who are weak
Come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the stream of life
Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep
Come Lord Jesus Come
Come Lord Jesus Come
As I sang, the phrase 'As deep cries out to deep' really caught my attention and stuck in my mind. I wondered what it meant. This song always brings to mind the panting deer of Psalm 42. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. This is exactly how I felt.
This prompted me to read Psalm 42 - and there it was vs 7. Now I was really curious - what does this mean? This is how I came across the above commentary for this verse - it was eye opening for me. Here are the parts that really touched my heart.
Scripture Refs:
Matt 27:46, 50; Mark 15:37; John 19:28; Psalm 22:15; Psalm 69:21
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Lord Jesus, thank You for the cross!
Isaiah 55:1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters...
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Feb 8, 2006
Deep Calls Out to Deep
From: http://www.abarim-publications.com/Arie/Bible/Psalm42v7.html
Psalm 42
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Have you ever been really thirsty? Parched lip, dry mouth thirsty? Every fiber in your being crying out for water?
I love the following song - was feeling especially dry and so started to sing it to myself.
All Who Are Thirsty
Words & music: Brenton Brown & Glenn Robertson
© 1998 Vineyard Songs (UK/EIRE)
All who are thirsty
All who are weak
Come to the fountain
Dip your heart in the stream of life
Let the pain and the sorrow
Be washed away
In the waves of His mercy
As deep cries out to deep
Come Lord Jesus Come
Come Lord Jesus Come
This prompted me to read Psalm 42 - and there it was vs 7. Now I was really curious - what does this mean? This is how I came across the above commentary for this verse - it was eye opening for me. Here are the parts that really touched my heart.
The author of Psalm 42 yearns to emerge from the throngs of those who challenge his trust in the One he desires. But in stead of drinking Him, he drinks his own tears, and all that pours is his own soul within him, descended, like the very water that the deer yields towards.
Then in verse 9, the author likens God distinctively to the opposite of water: a Rock. This draws our attention to Jesus Christ. Remarkable, because where the Psalmist states, "I will say to God, my Rock, "Why hast Thou forgotten Me?"," Jesus cried from the cross, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matt 27:46).
Dying the way Jesus did is a pretty hard death. There is some debate about His actual posture, but everyone agrees that His arms were stretched, and placed either sideways or straight up. The result of this is that the chest cavity expands and exhaling is made difficult. After a few days, breathing is impossible and Jesus' actual cause of death was exhaustion and asphyxia. This makes the report of His dying by Matthew and Mark highly remarkable, if not boldly referential, "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit" (Matt 27:50); "And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last" (Mark 15:37).
"Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty" (John 19:28)." NAS links this to Psalm 22:15. Others to Psalm 69:21. But perhaps Jesus thought of Psalm 42:7, the panting deer and its thirst, and 'Deep cried out to Deep'.
In this light - the light of the cross - I challenge you to read Psalm 42 again. See if the phrases I am thirsty and deep calls out to deep take on a new dimension! Then in verse 9, the author likens God distinctively to the opposite of water: a Rock. This draws our attention to Jesus Christ. Remarkable, because where the Psalmist states, "I will say to God, my Rock, "Why hast Thou forgotten Me?"," Jesus cried from the cross, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" (Matt 27:46).
Dying the way Jesus did is a pretty hard death. There is some debate about His actual posture, but everyone agrees that His arms were stretched, and placed either sideways or straight up. The result of this is that the chest cavity expands and exhaling is made difficult. After a few days, breathing is impossible and Jesus' actual cause of death was exhaustion and asphyxia. This makes the report of His dying by Matthew and Mark highly remarkable, if not boldly referential, "And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit" (Matt 27:50); "And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed His last" (Mark 15:37).
"Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty" (John 19:28)." NAS links this to Psalm 22:15. Others to Psalm 69:21. But perhaps Jesus thought of Psalm 42:7, the panting deer and its thirst, and 'Deep cried out to Deep'.
Scripture Refs:
Matt 27:46, 50; Mark 15:37; John 19:28; Psalm 22:15; Psalm 69:21
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Lord Jesus, thank You for the cross!
Isaiah 55:1 Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters...
