THE UPPER ROOM DAILY DEVOTIONAL 31 AUGUST 2024, SATURDAY MESSAGE
TOPIC: Our Ultimate Need
Today’s Reading
Psalm 63:1-11
O God, you are my God; I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. – Psalm 63:1 (NRSVUE)
TODAY’S MESSAGE
My vision blurred, and everything looked yellow and green. I felt like I would be sick and might fall down on the basketball court. I could hardly recognize anyone and struggled to walk in a straight line. Training under the hot sun had gotten to me.
The coach told me to sit down, and I drank some water. After I had a drink, I began to feel better. This experience reminded me just how essential water is.
Water brings us relief, nourishment, and replenishment. God does the same for believers. Without water, we would have no vitality, restoration, or even life, especially during an arduous undertaking.
In Psalm 63, David was in a state of great difficulty and turmoil and wrote about how his soul thirsted for God.
A life without fellowship with God is like a life without water: it is impossible. Like David, let us learn to thirst for and seek God like our lives depend on it.
Today’s Prayer
O God, guide us so that our hearts will always seek you above all else. Amen.
Thought for the Day
Life without God is like life without water.
Prayer Focus
Those without clean water to drink
The Upper Room Daily Devotional 31 August 2024 Message. The Upper Room is a daily devotional magazine published in more than 30 languages and 100 countries around the world. The daily meditations are written by readers of the magazine and others interested in sharing their faith experiences through writing—both laity and clergy, published authors and new writers. The meditations are stories of real people working to live faithfully with the Bible as their touchstone. Every day, readers of The Upper Room around the world read the same story in many different languages and pray the same prayer together. Read More