AS IT HAPPENS...
What are you supposed to do?
Start
Many of the psalms are crisis songs
Psalm 63, perhaps most famous for the line, "Your love is better than life," is one such song, written by David while he was hiding in the wilderness after his son Absolom had staged a rebellion.
Learn More
NEXT
‘'
Yet, here are words from Psalm 63:
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
Psalm 63:3
Read the psalm
NEXT
This psalm is an absolute cacophony of COMPLEX emotions in the midst of struggle.
Analyze them
NEXT
Knowing the context, what is he feeling?
1 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. 5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
6 On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. 7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. 8 I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.
9 Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. 10 They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. 11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
NEXT
Listen to 30-45 seconds of this musical setting of Psalm 63.If your first impression on reading Psalm 63 was at all positive, if it felt like nice words of adoration and praise, that's fair. This is a musical arrangement of the psalm that schools Kent attended used. It's fine, some people enjoy it...but on further reflection it's a total miss tonally. It doesn't feel like the psalm.
NEXT
But maybe, just maybe, that psalm setting is like people can be. When we're in the middle of something not-so-great we can still seem pretty happy.
How do you express how you're doing?
To God? To those around you? How can how you're doing "as it happens" be fairly, accurately shared? How much should be shared?
NEXT
Struggling, being open, and gaining comfort are very interconnected. See how Paul describes it here:
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
NEXT
So, Why write psalm 63?
NEXT
Thank You
You can move on to the next portion of the Spotlight.
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AS IT HAPPENS...
What are you supposed to do?
Start
Many of the psalms are crisis songs
Psalm 63, perhaps most famous for the line, "Your love is better than life," is one such song, written by David while he was hiding in the wilderness after his son Absolom had staged a rebellion.
Learn More
NEXT
‘'
Yet, here are words from Psalm 63:
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
Psalm 63:3
Read the psalm
NEXT
This psalm is an absolute cacophony of COMPLEX emotions in the midst of struggle.
Analyze them
NEXT
Knowing the context, what is he feeling?
1 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. 5 I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
6 On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. 7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. 8 I cling to you; your right hand upholds me.
9 Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. 10 They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. 11 But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
NEXT
Listen to 30-45 seconds of this musical setting of Psalm 63.If your first impression on reading Psalm 63 was at all positive, if it felt like nice words of adoration and praise, that's fair. This is a musical arrangement of the psalm that schools Kent attended used. It's fine, some people enjoy it...but on further reflection it's a total miss tonally. It doesn't feel like the psalm.
NEXT
But maybe, just maybe, that psalm setting is like people can be. When we're in the middle of something not-so-great we can still seem pretty happy.
How do you express how you're doing?
To God? To those around you? How can how you're doing "as it happens" be fairly, accurately shared? How much should be shared?
NEXT
Struggling, being open, and gaining comfort are very interconnected. See how Paul describes it here:
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
NEXT
So, Why write psalm 63?
NEXT
Thank You
You can move on to the next portion of the Spotlight.