Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 63:3

"Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee." — Psalms 63:3 (ASV)

Because. — Such a sense of the blessedness of Divine favour—here in its distinctive sense of covenant favour—that it is better than life itself, calls for gratitude displayed all through life. “Love is the ever-springing fountain” from which all goodness proceeds, and a sense of it is even more than the happy sense of being alive. The following lines convey in a modern form the feeling of this part of the psalm:

“So gazing up in my youth at love,
As seen through power, ever above
All modes which make it manifest,
My soul brought all to a single test—
That He, the Eternal, First and Last,
Who in His power had so surpassed
All man conceives of what is might,
Whose wisdom too showed infinite—
Would prove as infinitely good.”

R. BROWNING: Christmas Eve.

Thus — i.e., in the spirit in which he now speaks. For the attitude of the uplifted hands, see Note, Psalms 28:2.