Psalm 63 yet more fully applies to Christ as He walked this world, a homeless stranger. None could say as full as He, "My God" (verse 1). (See Psalm 22:1, 101<<To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.>> My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? (Psalm 22:1)
10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. (Psalm 22:10); and John 20:1717Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. (John 20:17)). The whole of this beautiful psalm expresses His thoughts while passing through this earth —the valley of the shadow of death—finding all His joys in His Father, and in those whom in matchless grace He drew to Himself.
The language is, however, such that the repentant Israelite might utter, when awakened from the sleep of moral death, and longing for the day when the restored temple at Jerusalem would again be God's earthly dwelling place; and the Christian, too, who has been led by faith to know Christ in glory, adopts the language as his own.
This world, to those who have found their all in Christ, is a dry and weary land without water; and there is a longing within, that nothing can ever quite displace, to see Him face to face whose presence will make heaven, heaven to us.
Verse 3 is a remarkable utterance for the Old Testament, but its truth proved to faith, we may judge, in all generation: "Thy loving kindness is better than life."
"Satisfied as with marrow and fatness" —how can this be where it is a "dry and weary land?" The Christian who draws his daily supplies of grace from above, knows the secret. This psalm calls for meditation more than explanation; may we who love Him of whom it tells, find such expressions as it contains, more and more the expressions of our own hearts until we meet Him.