Because. — Such a sense of the blessedness of Divine favour — here in its peculiar 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 dress 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.