Your love is better than life

https://odb.org/2025/07/03/jesus-our-everything

Psalm 63:1-4 (NIV) – 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. 2 I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. 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.

Psalm 63 is a famous Psalm that is often used in song compositions. A local one is the one that is sang and written by Esther Mui. Below is the link for the song: https://youtu.be/4oyC8489kZY?si=PXQo49Y0YyKclhG6

It is believed David wrote Psalm 63 while fleeing his own son, Absalom. The Psalm expresses David’s deep desire for God, but ultimately, to me, it is his confession that God’s love is better than life itself that is striking. It reminds me of Paul’s assertion that to die is gain, but to live is Christ. Similarly, David’s son, Solomon, proclaimed that life is vanity (meaningless) in Ecclesiastes unless it is lived with God.

Thus, if we dont have Jesus in our lives, life will come and go. In a blink of an eye, we will be 90 (if God allows us to live that long) and staring at death. What awaits us on the other side, according to the bible, is the lake of fire with gnashing of teeth. It is believed that hell is not only a place of torment but also loneliness as there is no fellowship with God or others. We will suffer and be tormented all alone, in isolation. Unlike as depicted by popular culture, we will not be seeing our “friends” or partners in crime in hell.

With Jesus in our lives, not only will we have a passage to heaven, and specifically, the new heaven and new earth (Eden recreated), we will also have a meaningful life while still on earth in the present. We will have a purpose driven life (title of a very famous Christian book!). Our lives become meaningful because our purpose is to please God, and every good deed we do is remembered and appreciated by Jesus. Nothing we go through in life will be wasted. Our bad experiences will be the foundation to build upon our ministry in the Kingdom and our good deeds will stand us in good stead when we give our account to our Lord Jesus Christ at the Bema judgment seat of Christ.

So, one day at 90 (if God allows us to live that long) as we stare at death coming our way, we will not be filled with sorrow or regret. Instead, we will be looking forward to seeing Jesus face to face, confident that we have done our best for the glory of God! Indeed, God’s love is better than life! I will glorify You with my life! Amen!