Scripture Devotion
The thirst isn't the problem. It's the compass.
“O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.”
Reflection
The seeking is early, and the longing is physical. This is not a mild, intellectual interest in God — it's thirst, the whole body's demand for water in a place that has none. David wrote it in an actual wilderness, and the metaphor is not decoration. He means the need is that basic and that urgent. Sunday is the day to name that thirst honestly rather than manage around it. The dry-land seasons come to everyone, and the counsel here is not to wait for the landscape to change before seeking, but to seek early, precisely because the land is dry. The thirst is not the problem to be solved. It's the compass pointing home.