Psalm 63 Desiring God???

In this Psalm David is experiencing a crisis. Worse than that it is a family crisis. Double worse than that is: HE BROUGHT THE CRISIS ON HIMSELF!! Now when I read this Psalm the background is not immediately apparent. But reading in 2 Samuel 14:10-11 we get the basis for this crisis. David is confronted by Nathan regarding what David did in committing adultery with Bathsheba and then having her husband murdered to cover it up since she was pregnant. When Nathan confronts David, it is then after almost a year of misery and agony of broken fellowship with God that David confesses in the biblical sense of the word. We know this because Psalms 32 and 51 are the result of his confession. Nathan assures David he is forgiven. BUT...there are going to be consequences even though there is forgiveness. It is difficult to separate the two. Consequences are the built-in results of violating Scripture, whether I am conscious of it or not. David knows he is forgiven. The consequences for David will be family division, strife, conflict, and violence. And it starts immediately. About 11 years later, David's son Absalom has positioned himself to stage a political coup against David. Rather than fight his son, David flees the palace and hides in the wilderness. This is where Psalm 63 fits. Even though David knows he is experiencing a family crisis he brought on himself, he is very sure of something else: the presence of God in his life. He is experiencing God's protection (Absalom wanted him very dead), God's provision, along with God's presence. He is experiencing what is written in Psalm 46:1 that God "is a very present help in trouble." David had an unbreakable relationship with God and at this point in his life he is experiencing what Paul describes as a "grace greater than all our sin" (Romans 5:20). So here is the point: God does not desert us in trouble even if we bring the trouble on ourselves. David learned that God pursues those He loves even when they mess it up very badly. He learned God would never "let go of his hand even when he messes up" (Psalm 37:23-24). As a result of learning this he was able to say: "I love being loved by You more than I love being alive" (63:3). He experienced what God told His people in Exodus 34:14, that God is very jealous in His relationship with His people and will do whatever it takes to secure their love. So what is better than life: knowing I have an unbreakable relationship with God, absolute forgiveness, His presence with me in the worst of times no matter what, watching Him change people’s lives and reconcile them, that the best is yet to come, and that God pursues me every day because He is jealous of His relationship with me. This kind of God is the kind, once known like this, is very desirable to know and love.