Early Will I Seek You

Early Will I Seek You

By M.T. Clark — P-2044 | 08/17/2026  –Today’s Audio Podcast

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Today’s photo of a warm golden sunrise breaking through overhead tree branches, casting light rays across a calm, glassy lake with a scattering of lily pads on the water and the edge of a weathered wooden dock curling into view at the bottom left, all softened by early-morning mist, comes to us from an anonymous friend on Facebook, who shared this quiet lakeside sunrise scene on July 22, 2021.

Well, it’s Monday, and I share this photo of a sunrise breaking through the trees over a still, misty lake to remind us that God’s mercies are new every morning, and that His grace is fresh at the start of every new week.

Some Mondays we wake up feeling like we’re already behind, but the sun came up over that water long before anyone was ready for it, and God doesn’t wait on us to have it together before He begins His work in us again. The same Lord who set the sun over that lake is the same God who is up before we are, ready to meet us at the start of the day. The Lord is already there, waiting for our thirsty souls to come and drink.

Speaking of coming to the Lord early with a thirsty soul,

Our series, “Win the Morning, Renew Your Mind,” continues today with a thirst that gets satisfied early

Early Will I Seek You

David wrote some of his most honest words from the wilderness, and in Psalm 63:1, out of a dry and weary place, he tells us about when he seeks God and how much he needs Him. The psalmist of Israel writes: “O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.”

Two things stand out immediately in this psalm: the time, “early”, and the intensity, “my soul thirsts”. David seeks God first, and he seeks Him like a thirsty man seeks water.

Let’s start with that word early. David doesn’t seek God as an afterthought once the day has worn him down. He seeks God at the beginning of the day, deliberately, before the wilderness leads him astray. And that ordering tells you what David has learned. He has learned that seeking God has to come early, or it tends not to come at all.

If God is the thing we’ll get to once everything else is taken care of, we’ll discover that everything else is never taken care of, and the day will end with our souls feeling as dry as they started. David has learned to give God the first part of the day, not the leftovers, because he knows himself, and he knows that the thirst he wakes up with will be quenched by something before noon. The only question is whether it will be quenched by the Living Water or by one of the wilderness’s empty substitutes.

Next, let’s feel the intensity of David’s seeking. He says, “My soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You.” This isn’t the language of religious duty. This is the language of a deep need and longing. David isn’t seeking God because it’s the disciplined thing a good believer ought to do. He’s seeking God because he’s thirsty, genuinely, in the soul, and he knows where the water is. That’s a healthier reason to seek the Lord in the morning than mere obligation, and it’s a true one.

We really are made with a thirst that only He satisfies. We spend a great deal of our lives trying to satisfy that thirst with other things, and the reason the morning phone, the endless scrolling, and the constant noise never satisfy is that they aren’t from God’s living water. They are the dry and thirsty land pretending to be an oasis.

And notice where David is when he writes this: he is in “a dry and thirsty land where there is no water”. He isn’t seeking God from a comfortable place where everything is going well. He’s in a wilderness, and it’s there that he seeks God early and hard.

This is worth listening to, because we sometimes imagine that seeking God in the morning is for the seasons when life is green and easy. David flips that impression. It’s in the dry season that the early seeking matters most, because it’s in the dry season that the temptation to reach for substitutes is strongest. When your soul is parched, you will drink anything that looks wet. David’s wisdom is to seek the true Water first, before the thirst drives him to the wrong well.

This is the heart of what we mean by winning the morning. It isn’t adding a religious chore to an already full life. It’s a thirsty soul going early to the only spring that satisfies it. The seeking isn’t a performance for God; it’s a drink for us. And the promise woven through the whole psalm is that the God who is sought early and intensely will be found. David doesn’t thirst in vain.

A few verses later he’s satisfied as with the richest of food. The early seeking gives way to genuine filling, because God doesn’t hide from the soul that thirsts for Him. He is found by those who seek Him.

I know the dry-and-thirsty land from walking through a desert or two in my own life. I spent years trying to fill a soul-thirst with things that could never touch it, drinking from wells that left me emptier than before.

What I didn’t understand, until God found me, is that the thirst itself was pointing me home, that it was made to be satisfied by Him and would never be quiet until it was. Since then,  I’ve learned that my days go best when I seek Him early.

So, this morning, go to the Lord early, and come thirsty. Don’t seek Him out of a grim duty of religion but out of honest need for His presence and help, the way a parched man seeks a spring. The Lord is your God, His water is real, and He is found by those who seek Him first.

Every step we take toward the Lord is a step in the right direction. So, keep on walking and talking with God.

— M.T.

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