Psalm 63:3-5 (NIV)
3 Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
4 I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
“David’s worship is based on God’s ‘lovingkindness’ which is a greater good than ‘life’ itself. This ‘lovingkindness’ is His ‘grace,’ His ‘covenant-love,’ which finds David and holds him unconditionally…To be loved by God in this way is ‘better than life,’ or to put it another way, it is to begin to live. Here David responds to God’s love: ‘My lips shall praise You. / … I will bless You while I live.’ To ‘bless’ means ‘to show appreciation, gratitude, and good will’ which promotes respect for the one being blessed…Calling upon God’s name in faith releases His power and presence. The result of this worship is that David’s ‘soul’ (‘self’) is now ‘satisfied’ or ‘fully fed’ ‘as with marrow and fatness’ (v. 5). By law no fat was to be eaten because it was the Lord’s (see Lev. 3:16). Here, as a result of worship, God gives His own food to David and he is filled.” [Psalms, The Preacher’s Commentary]
God longs to satisfy us so that we are full, filled again and again. Let’s call upon his name, sing his praises and worship him.
Prayer: Father, we will praise you as long as we live. Satisfy us with the richest of foods. Satisfy us in your presence. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Let’s worship to “Satisfied” by RXN (click here).
-DP
