Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
How do you view God’s love? Do you think that He’s a performance based Father? Does He grade you on how well you behave each day? Try not to think like that, because God’s love is unconditional. His love is “steadfast,” which means that it’s unwavering and He loves us even when we think we’ve failed Him. A true purpose of serving God embraces the whole of this life, and the whole of eternity. Anyone who loves God, and who has any proper sense of His mercy, does not anticipate a time when they will cease to praise and bless Him, or when they will have any desire or wish not to be engaged in His service. By all means, we must worship with understanding. We must think rightly of God and love Him with our heart and soul and mind. But we are not, for that reason, any less physical beings…why do I worship with hands raised? Because like one who surrenders to a higher authority, I yield to God’s will and ways and submit to His guidance and power and purpose in my life. It is my way of saying, “God, I am yours to do with as you please.”
Spiritual Steve 