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Wednesday... He really does know.


Psalm 38:9 (NLT), "You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh."

Wednesday... He really does know.

And that is so good to know.

There are deep longings inside of all us that we may not have shared with anyone. But David wrote Psalm 38 and in verse 9 he shares something that is important to him and it probably is important to us. He says, "You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh." And that is so personal, so private.


David wrote this Psalm asking God to remember him. Now he does remember our sins and it is important for us to know that God through the death of his Son, Jesus did something about that fact. Yes that is something that can be taken care of. And that is a longing inside of us for that needs o be taken care of. We may not know that but it is a longing placed inside of us by God when we were born.

In Paul's letter to the Colossians in chapter 1 verses 13-14 he writes, "For he has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his dear Son who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins."

That is something that we didn't even know that we longed for but God did because He placed that longing inside of all of us. Yes, everyone has that longing but they don't even know what it is. But God does. Oh we may think that longing is for something else. We search and search and strive and strive to take care of it. But God knows what we long for and he hears our every sigh.

Psalm 38:8-9 in the Amplified Bible says, "I am numb and greatly bruised [deeply cold and completely worn out]; I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You."

Verses 9-10 in The Message says, "Lord, my longings are sitting in plain sight, my groans an old story to you. My heart's about to break; I'm a burned-out case."

Yes, we were born with this longing and God is the only one who knows about it because he put it into our heart and He is the only one who can take care of it.

"You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh." We search and search and long and long but God is the only one who really knows what we long for because he put that longing within us, this longing for Himself.

"You know what I long for, Lord; you hear my every sigh." It is You. And He is always ready to take care of that longing. He is ready right now. Just reach out to Him and accept Him into you life. That is what you really are longing for. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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