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. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. Ps. 63:3–5
Lord Jesus, King David’s image of uninhibited celebration, deep satisfaction, and whole-being adoration are compelling. If reverence is giving an appropriate response to you and how you delight to be known, then David shatters our image of reverence as sitting quietly and politely with folded hands. Your love undid David, then “re-did” him. O, to know you in such a heart-thrilling, soul-satisfying, life-liberating way—or to know you again in that fashion and passion.
Jesus, by the work of the Spirit, take us on a fresh journey into the geography of your great love for us—it’s width, length, height, and depth (Eph. 3:17-19). Nothing is more compelling, nothing is more transforming, nothing is more counterintuitive than your love. On a day in the year (Valentine’s Day) when we will be tempted to measure our value in terms of human romance, may your “better-than-life” love shatter all comparison, and fuel our gratitude.
David danced with shame-free joy because the Ark of the Covenant was returned to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:1-23). How much more so should we live (dance) with shame-free joy before you—with the empty tomb behind us, the occupied throne above us, and the wedding feast barreling towards us? Jesus, as long as we live… with full hearts, singing lips, raised hands, surrendered lives, we will praise you. So Very Amen.