Desire and Satisfaction

Based on Psalm 63

Oh God you are my God;
My God, not another person's, not my church's or my nation's; is he your God?
Early will I seek thee:
Why early? Because my present influences my future, and my future needs all the help it can get. Early in the day, early in my life; seek God. That would be now, and next day must be earlier than now, I cannot repeat my life, so for my life I must seek God now.
My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee,
Not only the higher powers of the mind can long for God, but also the desires of the flesh. It is unfortunate to live in comfort, what a lack of drive to seek God that would cause! Blessed are ye poor. Let the rich man rejoice that he is made low. But what if he is not made low? :o Just a thought, if you can sell your unnecessary possessions and give your money away, then seek first the kingdom of God not seek after riches and still end up rich; praise God! Now you can give more money away. Just a thought.
In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
My environment drives my desires, why is there pain in the world? If there were no pain would there be any regard to the horrors of sin? The environment I surround myself with impacts my desires for God.
To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
We hear these stories of God doing strange and amazing things, blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. One day I'll see God's glory like the Israelites did in the sanctuary; and it will be worth the wait.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Better than life? I need to think about that one. But God must be very lovingly kind, and that deserves praise.
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
As long as we live we can bless God; but not when we are dead. I can lift up my hands out of excitement because of what God has done at times. But that doesn't mean I need to do it in church in order to pretend I am really holy in some mystic guru way.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
From inside to outside: fully satisfied. Only God can do that, no wonder we can praise him with joyful lips.
When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate upon thee in the night watches.
Hint, hint; this is a really good thing to do. Oh, but it takes effort! Never mind, it's worth it, it starts taking less effort when some of the junk is cleared out of your mind. Replace the furniture when the house is swept and garnished. Read uplifting literature, especially before sleeping; and memorise scripture while going to sleep, if your mind is lazy like mine at least plan how you can serve God at night. But get back to the basics of prayer, Bible study and meditation on the word. Meditation means prayerful consideration, personalisation and application by the way; not anything like yoga nonsense.
Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
Record and express how God has helped you; it is so easy to forget the multitudinous blessings if you make no record of them or never tell anyone about them. At least record and remember some.
My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
Follow Jesus in your life by deliberate imitation by the mind through the will to the body, God is perfectly capable of empowering you to imitate Christ.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
There are people that actually want to sabotage your efforts to imitate Christ, regardless of the eternal consequences for you. Don't envy them, they are very unfortunate, no matter how successful they may appear. They may be genuinely happy and contented, but it will all come to nothing one day.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for the foxes.
The description of the fate of the wicked is here described clearly, death and decay. First they will die, and then they will decay, disintegrate, be consumed, be annihilated.
But the king shall rejoice in God;
Kings and priests, we will rejoice, not because we are so awesome (though we will be), but because God is so wonderful.
Every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
The greatest battle is fought over the tongue. A tongue that makes decisions and professions to the glory of God is the greatest credit to God's lovingkindess, the true nature of his character. But the tongue that lies with evil words or lies with good words will be stopped forever. There will be no wicked and blasphemous words afflicting the ears of those in the new creation paradise. Paradise will be perfect.