Seeking at Dawn

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Hello, my friend… so glad to be with you today. This is By God's Call — day 180, Seeking at Dawn.

"O God, you are my God; earnestly 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.

Look at how David begins: "you are my God." Not "you are God," distant and generic. "My God." His seeking begins from a place of personal relationship, not abstract theology. He already knows who he's talking to — and that's exactly why the seeking is so intense.

And notice when he seeks: early, before dawn fully breaks, before the day brings its demands, its distractions, its to-do lists. The first movement of David's day belongs to God. Not the last resort, after everything else has failed. The first thing.

This psalm was written in the wilderness of Judah, while David fled from his own son, Absalom, who had turned against him to seize the throne. Imagine that pain — it's not just physical danger, it's the deepest betrayal there is, coming from his own blood. And it's in that wilderness, surrounded by dry sand and a literal lack of water, that David writes about the thirst of his soul.

Notice how he describes it: "my soul thirsts for you." And he doesn't stop there — "my flesh faints for you." That word speaks of the whole body, the flesh. This isn't a purely spiritual, abstract, philosophical desire. It's a longing that takes hold of the entire person — soul and body together, in the same thirst, in the same desperation for something to satisfy it.

And there's something deeply honest in this image: it's precisely in the dry, weary land with no water that the thirst becomes impossible to ignore. If David were standing by a river, maybe he wouldn't feel the lack so strongly. But in the wilderness — in the scarcity, in the exhaustion, in the absence of everything around him — the need for God is revealed with a clarity no other season of life offers.

Maybe you're in your own wilderness right now. Maybe your "dry land" is a betrayal, a loss, a season of exhaustion that doesn't seem to end. If that's you, I want you to hear this: that dryness around you is not a sign that God has moved away. It's the setting where your thirst for Him can become clearer than it has ever been.

So tomorrow morning — before checking any screen, before any task takes over your day — I want you to do what David did. Say out loud: "you are my God." And spend the first minutes of your day simply seeking Him. Not asking for anything yet. Just seeking. Let that be the first movement, before anything else.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.