2^nd Sunday of Lent.  “Needy”

 Our Need for God

Dear brothers and sisters,

             Spirituality 101 is this: there is a God, and it is not you.  Because we are the created, we have needs.  Ultimately, we can only love our neighbor as ourselves, when we first meet our own needs well.  Today we’ll look at our need for God, which is our greatest need.  We have a “God-sized” hole in our hearts!  This might just seem like a pious thought that you expect to hear from church.  For most of us, we don’t necessarily wake up every morning thinking about God.  Instead, we’re probably thinking about coffee, or breakfast, or what we have to do for the day.  Often, we get numb to thinking about our need for God because our sinfulness, or simply because of the busy-ness of life. order to grow in our thinking about our need for God, we’ll look at Psalm 63 which says: O God, you are my God – it is you I seek!  For you my body yearns; for you my soul thirsts, in a land parched, lifeless, and without water.  I look to you in the sanctuary to see your power and glory.  For your love is better than life; my lips shall ever praise you!  I will bless you as long as I live; I will lift up my hands, calling on your name.  My soul shall be sated as with choice food, with joyous lips my mouth shall praise you!  I think of you upon my bed, I remember you through the watches of the night.  You indeed are my savior, and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy.  My soul clings fast to you; your right hand upholds me.