Ps 30 6 When I felt secure, I said,
"I will never be shaken."
7 O LORD , when you favored me,
you made my mountain stand firm;
but when you hid your face,
I was dismayed".
The Psalmist is teaching that salvation is being delivered from death. When man fell into sin, he began to experience physical and spiritual death. This struggle was not natural to man as God created him. If God allowed us to experience the full effects of the fall , we would all be evaporated in an instant. So God had to become the agent by which we are prevented and allowed to experience the quality and the depth of this opposition. 8 To you, O LORD , I called;to the Lord I cried for mercy:
9 "What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?Will it proclaim your faithfulness?10 Hear, O LORD , and be merciful to me;O LORD , be my help."
Our natural response in dealing with opposition from the world and our personal struggle is to attack it by dividing it up and defining it. So we look at struggling with opposition as a list of things to do. But the Psalmist teaches that opposition to the christian is a state of struggling with our low view of the expectations that come from our personal view of the world. You must see that its not the event itself or our view of the weight that we experience in the struggle that creates our insecurity but its the weight of this spiritual and physical struggle with death that is in Gods hands.
You must understand that Gods view of all opposition goes to the very molecule of corruption. If God chose to give us absolute power over all opposition then everything that we do would be accomplished with the most insight and understanding that would enable us to know the future of our present choices. This is why in the Psalms , emotional experiences are made up of the mystery that is a result of our incomplete knowledge of this opposition. If we reduce the standard that has for our security then our world would be defined by how we achieve in facing our responsibilities. But the Psalmist expresses His frustration out of mystery that comes from eternity dwelling in our hearts. This is what I call ...wanting unity of purpose and gifts.
In other words when sin and corruption entered the world they opposed us by the weight of the curse. Corruption prevents us from our full expression of our gifts and the experience of pleasure that we find in expressing them. The Psalmist is saying that when God favored him ...he was at his highest pleasure of success as a result of his gifts. This pleasure that the psalmist experience was burned in his soul. He is describing this experience as the feeling of security. The Psalmist teaches that this deep pleasure that God allows and prevents teaches him the amount of passion that he has in speaking the laws, decrees, statutes ,curses and covenants. He is attacking the opposition to his pleasure in the pronouncements.
We must understand that Gods gifts are the causes of His perfect creation. When the Psalmist speaks the gifts , he experiences the unity of purpose. He finds that the search has no limits and no bottom. We are seeking something that we cannot understand ..something that is greater than we can think of ....and something that is eternally satisfying. In finding the pleasure that is drawn out of mystery ...we advance to more pleasure and more mystery. This is defined by the Psalmist as security.
"I will never be shaken."
7 O LORD , when you favored me,
you made my mountain stand firm;
but when you hid your face,
I was dismayed".
The Psalmist is teaching that salvation is being delivered from death. When man fell into sin, he began to experience physical and spiritual death. This struggle was not natural to man as God created him. If God allowed us to experience the full effects of the fall , we would all be evaporated in an instant. So God had to become the agent by which we are prevented and allowed to experience the quality and the depth of this opposition. 8 To you, O LORD , I called;to the Lord I cried for mercy:
9 "What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?Will it proclaim your faithfulness?10 Hear, O LORD , and be merciful to me;O LORD , be my help."
Our natural response in dealing with opposition from the world and our personal struggle is to attack it by dividing it up and defining it. So we look at struggling with opposition as a list of things to do. But the Psalmist teaches that opposition to the christian is a state of struggling with our low view of the expectations that come from our personal view of the world. You must see that its not the event itself or our view of the weight that we experience in the struggle that creates our insecurity but its the weight of this spiritual and physical struggle with death that is in Gods hands.
You must understand that Gods view of all opposition goes to the very molecule of corruption. If God chose to give us absolute power over all opposition then everything that we do would be accomplished with the most insight and understanding that would enable us to know the future of our present choices. This is why in the Psalms , emotional experiences are made up of the mystery that is a result of our incomplete knowledge of this opposition. If we reduce the standard that has for our security then our world would be defined by how we achieve in facing our responsibilities. But the Psalmist expresses His frustration out of mystery that comes from eternity dwelling in our hearts. This is what I call ...wanting unity of purpose and gifts.
In other words when sin and corruption entered the world they opposed us by the weight of the curse. Corruption prevents us from our full expression of our gifts and the experience of pleasure that we find in expressing them. The Psalmist is saying that when God favored him ...he was at his highest pleasure of success as a result of his gifts. This pleasure that the psalmist experience was burned in his soul. He is describing this experience as the feeling of security. The Psalmist teaches that this deep pleasure that God allows and prevents teaches him the amount of passion that he has in speaking the laws, decrees, statutes ,curses and covenants. He is attacking the opposition to his pleasure in the pronouncements.
We must understand that Gods gifts are the causes of His perfect creation. When the Psalmist speaks the gifts , he experiences the unity of purpose. He finds that the search has no limits and no bottom. We are seeking something that we cannot understand ..something that is greater than we can think of ....and something that is eternally satisfying. In finding the pleasure that is drawn out of mystery ...we advance to more pleasure and more mystery. This is defined by the Psalmist as security.
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