Thirsty for God: The Christian Experience of Longing…
If you have your Bibles I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 63. David is in the wilderness. This is probably not the time of his wilderness flight from Saul. Our best hint at that comes from verse 11, which tells us about those whose mouths are speaking lies against him, [and] apparently indicates the time from the revolt of Absalom. You’ll remember his own son, Absalom, drove David out of Jerusalem, out of his palace, out of his capital, out of the place of worship of the people of God, away from the temple, away from the courts of Zion and out into the wilderness. And this is probably the occasion in which David sings this Psalm. It's as if all the legs had been knocked out from under him, all of the support, all of the blessing are withdrawn and he's in the wilderness.…