Ps.63:3-5 – Because Your lovingkindness 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.
It’s one thing to get free from sin’s bondage, its an entirely different thing to stay permanently free. David had once fallen into the grasp of sin when he took another man’s wife, after repentance and the blessing of forgiveness of sin, the Lord returned David to his place of spiritual hunger. It’s as if the sin scared David, sin should scare all of us because of the ramifications of sin. Not only does sin pay us back in this life, there is also the life to come where the cost of sin demands full payment. The beauty of David’s Psalm is this, the fullness of God is enough to keep us for the rest of our journey. Grace not only attracts us but it captures us, cleanses us, transforms us, and sustains us for all of our days. Here is what Spurgeon says about this passage.
“There is in the love of God a richness, a sumptuousness, a fulness of soul filling joy, comparable to the richest food with which the body can be nourished. The Hebrews were more fond of fat than we are, and their highest idea of festive provision is embodied in the two words, marrow and fatness: a soul hopeful in God and full of his favor is thus represented as feeding upon the best of the best, the dainties of a royal banquet. And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. More joy, more praise. When the mouth is full of mercy, it should also be full of thanksgiving.”
Spurgeon is describing feasting on God as if it were an amazing feast of fine foods. He is describing what David saw as a total and complete satisfaction in God. Delighting in God’s grace is a total feast for our souls. But here is the point and the power of all of this, it is in being satisfied by drinking of the cup of His fullness that not only satisfies us but sustains and keeps us as well. What keeps us from wandering back to the world? It is the very same thing that won us, the amazing feast of God’s grace.
God’s remedy is to yield up the whole man — spirit, soul, and body to God, hand it over to death, and then receive a new creation, a converted body, a regenerated soul, a new spirit in the glorious work of a complete conversion. But even this is not enough; for even when converted, we will, if left to ourselves, relapse again, and therefore we need not only a new heart and a new spirit, but the HOLY SPIRIT to enter and keep the new man, to garrison the heart and mind, to hold the citadel, to dwell and walk within us, and “cause us to keep His statutes.” A B Simpson