Like God’s people in the desert, we are often aware of our thirst, but don’t think to turn to God to have it quenched. Like the Samaritan woman, we don’t know the treasure that is ours if we ask for it. We blame our dryness on our circumstances or leaders and question whether God is even with us. In the desert God caused water to gush out of a rock to quench the people’s thirst. The psalm celebrates God as the rock of our salvation. It recognizes the many ways in which God is present with us on our journey, just as God was present in the desert on the rock and in the provision of water. The psalm warns us not to make our own hearts rocklike by resisting God’s voice. To respond to God as the Samaritan woman responded to Jesus, we must stop long enough to listen, and trust enough to let down our defenses. The psalm uses the story in the wilderness as a warning, but it can also be a message of hope. Even if our hearts are hard and closed, God can cause the blocked spring to burst forth again, our spirit animated by God’s Spirit to well up into life.

To be closer to GOD, to know HIM and the way of light, then wisdom and courage to immplement HIS teachings