Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you

 Psalm 63:1-11

You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.

Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

David when he was in the Judean desert (as an outlaw hunted by King Saul). Having tasted the full joy and satisfaction of God's presence, who can bear to lose it?

Why?

Even in the desert, there is no water, but David knew the help is came from the Lord, so he said "my whole being longs for you".

God's love is better than life, for if there is not the love of God, will perish.

David has experienced the help of the Lord so he wrote this psalm and honor the name of God.

David believed that righteousness will come to him and his enemies.

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曠野沒有水，也沒有食物，在曠野中尋求什麼呢?身心俱疲，反而是求神

1.v1-3:尋求神:明顯有水、有食物是最需要的。為何要尋求神呢? 因為曾經在安全的地方尋求神的能力、榮耀，比找水更重要。神的慈愛比什麼都重要。即使有水若沒有神的愛又有什麼意義呢?我們如何看待神的慈愛呢?生活中只是點綴，心靈寄託一樣，還是看待如命一樣重要。因為曾經經歷過神的愛。例如我們和親人之間的愛深到一個程度，當親人過世，有人會說那麼我也不要活了。

2.v4-8 時刻思念，緊緊跟隨神：如情人一般天天思想、想念。不是相思之苦而是心中滿足、喜樂的思念，享受神的同在。進一步跟隨就不容易了，跟隨是以神的喜好為喜好，以神的心意為生活目標。要放下自己的想法。即要修理乾淨利落，才能跟隨。

3.v9-11 與神相近的人就與惡遠離：與神親近的人，還要想害怕惡人的攻擊嗎？還怕謊言嗎？

願我們與大衛一起尋求神，因神的慈愛比生命更好。

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How?

Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you forever in my life.