I am guessing that you’ve never heard anyone say that (or anything like it). “I’m gonna pass out if I don’t get to worship God soon!” Yep, it sounds a little “over-the-top” or “dramatic,” doesn’t it? Nobody would ever verbalize anything like that, let alone even think it!
Well, a conclusion such as that would be…wrong! The heart of a worshiper (who lived about 3,000 years ago) expressed it like this: “How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God…Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; They will still be praising You. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere…O Lord of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!” (Psa. 84). Read back through that again. Is there anything in those words that you could say? Can’t say? Wouldn’t say? Have never thought to say? Think are just silly to say?
What is keeping your heart from shouting, “My soul longs, yes, even faints for the worship of the Lord”?