Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 63:3-6

"Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee. So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on thee in the night-watches." — Psalms 63:3-6 (ASV)

Even in affliction, we need not lack reason for praise. When this is the regular state of a believer's mind, a believer values the loving-kindness of God more than life. God's loving-kindness is our spiritual life, and that is better than temporal life.

We must praise God with joyful lips; we must undertake the duties of religion with cheerfulness and express the praises of God from a principle of holy joy. Praising lips must be joyful lips.

David was in continual danger; care and fear kept him awake and gave him wearisome nights, but he comforted himself with thoughts of God. The mercies of God, when called to mind in the night watches, support the soul, making darkness cheerful.

How happy will be that last morning, when the believer, awaking in the Divine likeness, will be satisfied with all the fullness of God, and praise him with joyful lips, where there is no night, and where sorrow and sighing flee away!