Deep Calleth Unto Deep

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Have you ever felt that there was a deep place in your heart that you were not aware of? Something so far greater in depths than you have experienced before, and from there a potent yearning? It is a place you do not typically abide in. In a sense it is like a place so deep within yourself, you would not know how to get there if you tried.

Then one day, you feel that deep place stirring with increase day by day. There can only be a realization that it must come from the Lord, knowing that is where He resides. Yet you have tried to pray to God about it, but it is too deep to get to, and it feels like no use. It is like a well so deep and "having nothing to draw with." There are no words to speak, so you remain speechless, and that adds to wonder.

Any and all attempts to get to the bottom of it by reading more, and hoping a word will leap off the page, or the Holy Spirit illuminating a particular verse will occur. Yet nothing happens, in fact, the word becomes "like a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." No amount of trying to fast, worshipping, listening to sermons, or trying to seek for a word, or discuss it with friends works, but only adds to the stripping away of everything. The stripping away of all your attempts is the finality.

What is happening to you is Jesus is calling you from the depths of your heart to enter into His depths. Walk quietly before Him. Do not try to force anything, just go your way, and let Him reveal to you what He wants. The songwriter of Psalm 42:7 wrote, "Deep calleth unto deep..." is expressing the fact that his soul was in the deepest dire need of God. The psalmist calls out from his place of that profound need for the unfathomable greatness of God. A deep need calls for an equally deep remedy.

James Smith and Robert Lee beautifully elaborate on this meaning of deep calls to deep in their multi-volume work Handfuls on Purpose for Christian Workers and Bible Students: “The deep of man’s need calleth unto the deep of God’s fulness; and the deep of God’s fulness calleth unto the deep of man’s need. Between our emptiness and His all-sufficiency there is a great gulf. . . . Deep calleth unto deep. The deep mercy of God needs our emptiness, into which it might pour itself. . . . Nothing can fully meet the depth of our need but the depth of His Almighty fulness.”

"Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit." ~Charles Spurgeon