Because Your love is better than life, my lips will glorify You.  —Psalm 63:3

Sometimes, I let myself believe – for a moment – that God’s love isn’t true.

I look at circumstances that have caused such deep hurt and conclude that, if He was loving, He could have prevented or changed the circumstances.

I revisit all of my desperate pleas for Him to intervene, to defend, to protect, to deliver…and find that every battle seems to have been lost before even beginning.

I search for some hope to cling to – some way to convince myself that He will move these mountains – and wonder why He would choose to start moving now when He has only been silent so far.

But, then, I read that His love is better than life.

Life, that hurts.  Life, that disappoints.  Life, that confuses and discourages and tears down.  Life, that seems unfair.  Life, that brings rejection and hopelessness and despair.  Life, that tempts me to withhold praise when things get hard.

And I am reminded that this life…this here and now?  This is not meant to be my proof of His love, and this is not the reason He deserves my continual worship.

Because no matter what life looks like, His love is better.  And the moment I let hard times keep me from glorifying Him, I have made those circumstances more valuable than His love. The moment I believe that He has abandoned me because prayers are left unanswered, I’ve said that His love isn’t better than whatever it is I think I am missing.  The moment I deem Him unloving because I feel unloved by others, I’ve chosen to believe that His love alone isn’t enough for me.

But His love is enough.  His love is more valuable.  His love is better.

So my lips will glorify Him.  Always.