I agree with Ron..true saving faith is an eternal desire we are gifted with at salvation for Christ that is like a fire that cannot be quenched. This desire is compared to the planting of a seed. The seed is the word of God that He implants in us when we are saved. It is described in the Psalms as a word of salvation. We have this desire to overcome all our trials and our pain through this word of salvation.
Every day we get up the cry of our hearts is for God to speak this word of salvation to us by coming to our aid and making us successful. When we feel the deep heart need to be accepted our response is a cry for deliverance or salvation. This cry is the only remedy for our deep need.
So this implanted word is all that God says and does in order to make us complete and perfect. It is Gods perfect communication to us from the beginning of our lives to the end of our lives . It is Gods perfect design that is given in its completeness that is in us.
The theologians like to say we are already complete but not yet. lol So this word implanted in us is a revealed word. The revealed word is all of Gods revelation in the bible that is connects one word to another like a string. So we can compare the total word of God that is all that is needed to our feeling of wholeness. The incredible thing to think about is if we understand one word of revelation then we understand all the words. Because one word is the total revelation of all the words because these words of scripture are spirit. So we can have a very small understanding of Gods word and yet have a complete understanding of God because we have been given His Spirit and we know all things by one word.

“On the one hand, God is holy and just and cannot tolerate or live with or bless evil. On the other hand, God is loving and faithful and cannot tolerate the loss of people he has committed himself to. This is a tremendous, seemingly irresolvable tension…It is oly on the cross that we can understand how God is able to resolve the tension…Without the gospel of Christ crucified, we will always either complacently give in to sin (because of the unconditionality of his promises), or live under a burden of guilt and fear (because of their conditionality). The cross is where we find the tension resolved, so we are to live forgiven, obedient lives despite also living sinful, disobedient lives. The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves, without being proud, and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.” Tim Keller

I agree with this and want to make a point about the struggle we have with our weaknesses. The Psalmist says" I was overcome by trouble and sorrow" The Psalmist depicts our inward sorrows and our distresses due to out trials as a weight that is too heavy for us to carry. We must understand that sin is not only the destructive part that Christ must atone for but because we carry around this body of sin...or the flesh we still have tendency to react to our trials in a cursed way. Even tho the curse has been taken care of in Christ , yet we still carry around this body of death...our human weakness combined with the nature of sin. We will feel the weight of this corruption until we go to heaven where there will be no more sorrow, no more tears etc.
We experience the power of the curse even tho we have been freed from it. The power of the curse is the anger we experience from the trial. We have been given a moral compass that rises up when we sin or have been sinned against. The cross is not just about personal atonement but it is the cause of the success of Gods universal government to redeem a people to Himself by paying the purchase price for His people who have suffered on this earth. We go from being enemies of Christ to enjoying a full substitute Who has gone out before us and done the work necessary for us to be accepted by God who has become our Father. The purchase price for our suffering is not according to the level of suffering we go through but its according to the price of His blood that He poured out for us on the cross. He reacts to our suffering on a level of justified anger- (whos purpose is for our defense and not a hot reaction).... that is far beyond our anger that we experience in the curse. When we live in this realization His anger consumes our anger.

“The foundation of all holy affections is in moral excellence and the beauty of holiness. There is a love of holiness for its own sake that inclines people to practice holiness. Holiness is thus the main business that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections. No wonder then that all such affections tend to holiness, for men will be untied to and possessed by that which they love and desire. And what has been observed of the divine teaching and leading of the Spirit of God in gracious affections will show a tendency toward a universal, holy practice. The Holy Spirit gives the soul a natural relish for the sweetness of what is holy and for everything that is holy as it comes into view. He also intensifies a dislike and disgust of everything that is unholy.” J. Edwards

Edwards is not really talking about outward performance but an inward desire. He is saying that a christian grows in holiness as he desires the spiritual food more and more. In Psalm 27 the Psalmist talks about this one desire which overcomes every adversity on this earth. The Psalmist begins the Psalm with declaring victory in his occupation , which is war...then he goes into his relationships to people from those who are distant friends to his most cherished relationships.
Whatever opposition he faces in these corrupted relationships is overcome by this one desire..".I am confident of this that I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living." This is another way of saying that this new desire is saying in the Psalmist... "Seek the Lord"...and his desire responds... "His face will I seek." He waits patiently knowing that all of the work of salvation has been gifted to him and is experienced on this earth in the land of the living which the Psalmist envisions as going on into eternity. The image of Christ overpowers all other images.

Ps 144 1 Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
2 He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
3 LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them?
4 They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
This is a Psalm that teaches how we are to advance the covenant of redemption. It is drawing a parallel between the universal problem of man under sin and the cultural identity of a people in nation who are ruled by a king. The phrase "what is man that you care for him, the son of man that you think of him?" is taking us back to mans original responsibility to manage the earth.
God our" rock" is speaking about God as the supreme judge who protects the nation of Israel through war to subdue the nations. 7 "Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners"Gods eternal government overrules all of mans decisions. "5 Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke.6 Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them."
When man fell into sin , he began to rule the world apart from God. The teaching here is that just as salvation prospers through the success of a patriarchal society so it is thwarted by the nations being populated by wicked men. 7b"from the hands of foreigners "8 whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful". We are taught that we must subdue the earth before we can see the prosperity of a society that enjoys the fruits of salvation and blessing. 10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword" This is the creation mandate. The phrase 4 They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow." is a pronouncement upon wicked nations who wish for death because they worship dead idols. Humanistic societies are suicidal.The Psalmist will pronounce the end of the wicked society and then he will petition God for victory. This is a part of the teaching of eternal salvation. vs 10 (All of the words used by the Psalmist as a petition for personal protection in war are the same words used in teaching eternal salvation)
What is the result of victory in war? 12" Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace.13 Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields;14 our oxen will draw heavy loads.There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets.15 Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD.Even tho the Psalmist describe the christian culture ,these same words are used in the Psalms to describe how we enjoy eternal life on a personal level.He is reducing the life flow to the simple responsibilities that man had in the garden. This is the teaching that when we are redeemed our great enemy is complicating Gods law. As I have been saying that we must focus on Gods law as settling the problem with evil by the curse of death. When we try to add our own agenda into the law we begin to be unfaithful to Gods covenants.

We need to be convinced of the teaching of human inability because it defines how we acquire power and acceptability in this life. The reason that we are taught that we are not intrinsically righteous is because of the principle of the curse.It describes our relationship to the law that is the opposite of the natural man. We do not want to be guilty of entertaining the same relationship to the law as the natural man. That would be cursing oneself.
Most people think that inability is excusing us from being responsible to the law and to one another. This is the core struggle in this world in the differences of the interpretation of scripture. Its also attributed to the fact that every person born is a wrong example of every other person. The reason that we reject the medicine that is the most logical and simple as an emanation of God.The bible says that a corrupted desire not only is a rebellion against the law but its an attempt to limit the ability of another person. God is the only one who is able to identify with us as He understands perfectly our circumstances and our desires. So we are also our own worse enemy. We actually prevent joy, pleasure and life from being infused in us because we are corrupted.

Self love then is knowing the evil that we see and dwells in us as our enemy to all that is pleasurable , healing and good. The point is that God is not adding destruction in this world in order to oppose evil. God does not need to add to mans destructive nature and actions. This why the apostle teaches us that when we bring our pain and trials to God , He gives us a spiritual sedative. He gives us peace. The bible not only describes sin as a violation of the law of God but its also a corruption of the human nature both spiritually and physically that causes pain. The bible calls this pain a curse. write later.

Ps 36 1"in your light we see light." The Psalmist is teaching that Gods doctrine must be taught in order to know who God is. God cannot be known by coming to mystery. A lot of people build their knowledge of God like a Buddhist. Buddhist believe that through focus we can achieve the state of nothingness. We are able to get our minds where we have no thoughts. But the christian believes that knowledge of God is not separated from the doctrine of God. This is why we believe that all reality is in God and the only way that we can understand this reality is to confess each individual doctrine as our trust in God. We believe in a confessional reality.
This means that christian fellowship and unity that defines relationships is determined by our confessing together clear doctrines that we agree upon. We cannot even define who we are as christians unless we confess our doctrinal position. When we talk about the whole counsel of God we are always confessing that we hold to the doctrines of grace and Gods absolute sovereignty. According to our agreement on these doctrines is how unified we are in relationships.
In this Psalm we find that Gods kingdom teaches us to confess the truth about the wicked. The Psalm is not comparing our experience with the world. But its teaching that Gods kingdom has been established by His word and we view everything in this world according to the clear doctrines of His word. An "oracle" is our conviction about the world that is based upon looking at the world as we are standing in Gods eternal kingdom. As we are confessing that Gods love and faithfulness are covenantal, His righteousness and justice go higher and lower than this earthly experience, God alone controls the preservation of living things, all true value is in Gods hands and overrules all attempts to devalue Gods creation, and that our lives are in Gods hands just as our corporate confession of the doctrines of grace are that by which we receive eternal life. Upon this practice we judge and over come the world. "God sees" is speaking of God overcoming our opposition through our confession as we are looking back at our lives.