His Love

Because Your loving-kindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.
Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.
~Ps 63:3-5

“Because Your loving-kindness”...Our relationship with God was in no way initiated by us. God sought us out in the beginning. We were absolutely separated from Him and He pursued a relationship with us.

In the same way our relationship with God only continues because of Him. His love is "better than life," and when we receive His love, we are motivated to rise up and praise Him. To praise Him is our highest calling. Our praises may take many forms. For some it is teaching, others encouragement, giving time, giving money, or even simply listening or comforting with a hug. Each of these acts are praise when done in obedience to God's calling, e.i. "in Your name", and each is a necessary and valuable part of the body.

We "shall be satisfied" when we are in alignment with God's purpose for us. We were designed to stay in constant relation to God and continue praising Him every moment of the day. When we choose our own path and disengage ourselves from the Father we find emptiness and hopelessness, because we are going against our very design.

It is easy to question God's plan for us. To think that we know better than Him. But who are we to question the Creator? Does the Creator not know what is best for His creation? Consider...does He not see all, and know all?...can we ever know a better way than God? "His loving-kindness is better" than any life that we could imagine outside of Him. Revel in His love today and let it fill you with praise that rings out from joyful lips.

By Wesley Baker