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I. As A PERSONALITY.

1. That He is as distinct from the universe as the architect from the building, the author from his book, admits of no rational doubt.

2. We believe in His personality

(1)  Because we have it. Could He give what He has not?

(2)  Because we instinctively believe it, and

(3)  Because the Bible declares it.

II. As a LIVING personality. "The living God." The world abounds with dead gods, but the God is living, consciously, independently, actively, ubiquitously. The God of modern Christendom is rather the God that was living in Old Testament times, and in the days of Christ, than the God that is living here, and with every man.

III. As a living personality CRAVED AFTER BY THE HUMAN SOUL. "My soul thirsteth for the living God."

1. The soul is constitutionally theistic. It believes in God.

2. The soul is immensely great. Nothing but God can satisfy it. It will not be satisfied with His works, however vast and lovely, it must have Him Himself.

(Homilist.)

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KJV: {To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

WEB: As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.