Sadly, some professing Christians find very little joy in their relationship with God.

Trusting and obeying Him feels only like a duty and not a delight. However, Psalm 63 reminds us that God's great love

ought to draw out the deepest affection from his people and that we must look to God as he's described in the

opening words of this song oh God you are my God earnestly I seek you my soul thirst for you my flesh faints for you as in a dry and

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forward slash admin. On today's new message from Psalm 63 David Platt urges us to set aside Luke

one thoughts about God and instead pursue him as our all-consuming passion.

Here's David with a sermon titled Behold His Love from Psalm 63.

If you have a Bible and I hope you are somebody around you does that you can look on with let me invite you to open with me to

Psalm chapter 63. Psalm chapter 63 so Heather and I are coming up on our wedding anniversary next week, and one year,

as a present for our anniversary, she gave me a scrapbook filled with letters and notes that I had written her over the course of our relationship that she'd saved.

And the first time I preached here a few years ago, I was just filling in one Sunday in the summer. I shared a portion of one of those letters and so you'll have to forgive me if you were here on that Sunday, but I want to pull that letter back out because I think it will help us understand this text and

believe me it will not help any reputation I have so so let me set the

context I've mentioned to you that Heather's the only girl I ever dated, which sounds noble until you realize I was just very socially awkward growing up.

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