Sunday, July 9, 2017

63 3Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
130 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.
The Psalmist is saying that our desire that God has given to us is like a seed planted in the ground. All reality is from our view. Every person views the world according to their own reality. There is not one who understands the pure truth. But when we are saved that seed that was implanted is the entire reality of God according to all of His word. At any time we understand those things that we have been taught in His word. But we believe that one word is the spirit of all the words. In this sense God does not look upon us as having parts of incomplete understanding. God is sovereign and just like He holds together everything that is created so also He holds us together by the complete implantation of His word. This is what the Psalmist prays for when he ask God to search the Psalmist. The Psalmist understands that God has spoken all reality in to existence and God is able to unite the Psalmist with the perfect unity of all reality. The Psalmist is teaching that our desires are molded by Gods mysterious love. He says that Gods love is better than his view of life. In other words when the Psalmist experiences Gods mysteries there is a unity that is beyond his understanding that fulfills him.( your love is better than my life)
The Psalmist is saying that God has given His elect just enough of His revelation that can be understood and used to create success. The Psalmist never teaches mysticism. The mystery of God is created by Gods perfect word on the lips of the Psalmist. He is not teaching that good feelings come from Gods revelation but that when Gods elect have the law, covenants, curses promises etc on their lips no matter what the circumstances in life are , the elect control the world by these pronouncements. The future word that he hopes in is as real as the future event that he has created by the pronouncements."in his word I put my hope". Now listen.. all words that a person uses to describe his own circumstances and view of life are subject to the pronouncements of God. The word is like God bringing all men before Him at all times in the judgement and pronouncing life and death. There is no such thing as God occupying space that is taken by evil. God has absolute sovereignty over all space and time. Now listen ,...in this sense Gods word both revealed and mysterious is pronounced as the future reality that unites our purposes with our success. We live in complete dependence upon His word just as we experience our own reality.