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Love: Better Than Life
It's Sunday.
No teaching today. No deep dive. Just one line from a Psalm David wrote when he was in the wilderness, hiding from those who wanted him dead. Not a comfortable moment. He was alone, thirsty, sleeping on hard ground.
Rest with what he wrote.
"Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you." - Psalm 63:3
Read it slowly. Twice.
Notice what David does.
He does not say "your love is comforting." He does not say "your love is helpful." He does not say "your love is important to me."
He says your love is better than life.
Better than the thing every human clings to. Better than the thing every animal instinct fights for. Better than the physical fact of being alive. That is the value David places on God's love, in a wilderness, hunted, exhausted, at his lowest.
He is not exaggerating. He has thought about it. He is naming, precisely, that whatever it costs him, whatever he loses, whatever the season takes, God's love is worth more.
Rest today with that.
Whatever this week surfaced about the love you have been withholding, whatever you noticed about how thin your love had become, whatever you felt when you thought about the one person you were called to love this week, put all of it down for today.
You have been loved with the kind of love David is describing. Better than life. Steadier than circumstance. Unshakeable when everything else shakes.
You cannot earn that love. You cannot lose it. It is not a reward for having loved well this week. It is not a punishment for having loved poorly. It is a fact about who God is toward you.
Sit with that today.
Whatever you tried to do this week that did not quite work, whatever love you tried to give that fell short, you were loved anyway. Better than life. The whole time.
Rest in that.
Tomorrow morning, when you wake up, the same love is still there. Waiting for you to receive it, and let it flow through you again.
YOUR ONE THING FOR TODAY
Read Psalm 63:3 out loud today. Slowly. Then say the first five words as your own. "Your love is better than life."
A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Father, thank you for this week. Thank you that your love is better than life itself. Rest me in that today. Fill me tomorrow. Amen.
OVER TO YOU
What stayed with you from this week? A word, a line, or nothing at all. Every reply welcome.
God bless you, my friend.
The LowKey Christian
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