The desire of our soul'

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"The desire of our soul is to Your Name, and
to the remembrance of You." Isaiah 26:8

How sweet and expressive is the phrase, "The desire
of our soul!" How it seems to carry our feelings with it! 
How it seems to describe the longings and utterings of 
a soul into which God has breathed the spirit of grace 
and mercy! 

"The desire of our soul"—
the breathing of our heart,
the longing of our inmost being,
the cry, the sigh, the panting of our new nature,
the—
heavings,
gaspings, 
lookings,
longings,
pantings,
hungerings,
thirstings, and 
ventings forth of the new man of grace;
all are expressed in those sweet and blessed 
words—"The desire of our soul." 

And what a mercy it is, that there should ever be 
in us "the desire" of a living soul—that though the 
righteous dealings of God are painful and severe, 
running contrary to everything nature loves—yet 
that with all these, there should be dropped into 
the heart that mercy, love, and grace—which draw 
forth the desire of the soul toward the Name of God. 

This is expressed in the words that follow, "My 
soul yearns for You in the night—in the morning 
my spirit longs for You!" Isaiah 26:9. 

Is your soul longing after the Lord Jesus Christ? 

Is it ever, in the night season, panting after the 
manifestation of His presence? hungering and 
thirsting after the dropping of some word from His 
lips—some sweet whisper of His love to your soul?

These are marks of saving grace. 
The carnal, the unregenerate, the ungodly, 
have no such desires and feelings as these!

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