Longing - What do you want from God?

One question I wrestled with was, "What one thing do I want from God?" I continue to go back to God with this question.
Spend this week meditating on Psalm 42 as you meditate on this passage as yourself, "What do I want from God?" There are some more reflection questions below that you might find helpful. I have found that God is there in my own longing. God and His Spirit must have initiated my own longing for Him. If you find yourself wanting or longing for God, try and discern his presence in the midst.

Psalm 42
1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

If you want to identify me,
" Ask me not where I live
Or what I like to eat,
Or how I comb my hair
But ask me what I am living for,
In detail and ask me
What I think is keeping me
From living fully for the thing
I want to live for"

Thomas Merton, My argument with the Gestapo

Suggested Questions for Reflection
• What are you longing for in your relationship with God?
• Where are you experiencing God in your life right now?
• What is at the root of your most deepest and persistent longing?
• Who are you longing to be?
• Where are you not living out of your true identity in Christ?