“My lips will glorify you because your faithful love is better than life.” (v. 3)

A critique of the contemporary Christian:

Too few of us are saying too little too infrequently about our God. We say a lot of faith-positive things—but, in the world, we offer only minimal verbal glory to Him. Our testimonies are shallow.

I have a theory as to why:

We lose sight of the “because.”

But what if we didn’t?

In Psalm 63, the Psalmist readily praises God—and explicitly—because he has known God’s faithful love. David’s testimony is one of rescue, mercy, strength, and blessing—so he testifies!

How in tune are you with the because for praise?

If you will remember what the Gospel has afforded you—your own testimony of rescue and mercy and strength and blessing in Christ—then you will open your lips, too.

— Tyler