for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem me, O LORD , the God of truth."
In Psalm 1 the Psalmist sets the counsel of the wicked apart from
meditating on the this book. In our culture we seek counsel in order to
make wise decisions and to overcome our problems. Our motto is to take
what is dealt to us as our starting point. Our natural way of thinking
is to plan our lives and to discipline ourselves so that we are able to
perform at our best in our different occupations. But this is not the
counsel the Psalmist is describing from in his life of meditation.
In old testament poetry our lives in the time sequence are described as walking down a narrow path. The way that we make plans is by creating. The counsel of the Psalms is only real by meditation. In other words the Psalms are written to apply the gospel to our lives. Our assurance of knowing that we will have all of our needs met is speaking the promise in pronouncements and speaking the words of assurance that the Psalmist has written. In other words we are not getting knowledge in order to make wise decisions but we are always going from the valley to the mountain and back to the valley again.There is a time of struggle and preparation in order to prepare for the mountain. All Hebrew poetry that is spoken by meditation will create the future circumstances.
Hebrew poetry in meditation creates the desire to create the future of our lives. The Psalms describe all the circumstances of life and the all people who are in this world. Its hard for us in our natural way of thinking to believe that our view of the world and people are the image we create in our own minds. Every person has their own view of reality. So we need more than a knowledge by study. We need to recreate our images so that our view matches the narrow path that we walk on. All views come from self deception and result in a faulty view of the danger and the value of the things and people in this world. The bible calls this our natural dullness to spiritual things.
Hebrew poetry redefines all personalities and all images of creation. We must understand that God orders our lives with unfathomable detail. Our natural tendency is to trust in our view as we plan our future. But Hebrew poetry is written to expand our view. It is written in the way that God recreates our lives in a very simplistic form. We meditate on the outline of the unfathomable detail as God views our future. It does not matter how long we go through preparation. Because the preparation of one generation affects the next generation. We never stop preparing our future until we reach the mountain.
In old testament poetry our lives in the time sequence are described as walking down a narrow path. The way that we make plans is by creating. The counsel of the Psalms is only real by meditation. In other words the Psalms are written to apply the gospel to our lives. Our assurance of knowing that we will have all of our needs met is speaking the promise in pronouncements and speaking the words of assurance that the Psalmist has written. In other words we are not getting knowledge in order to make wise decisions but we are always going from the valley to the mountain and back to the valley again.There is a time of struggle and preparation in order to prepare for the mountain. All Hebrew poetry that is spoken by meditation will create the future circumstances.
Hebrew poetry in meditation creates the desire to create the future of our lives. The Psalms describe all the circumstances of life and the all people who are in this world. Its hard for us in our natural way of thinking to believe that our view of the world and people are the image we create in our own minds. Every person has their own view of reality. So we need more than a knowledge by study. We need to recreate our images so that our view matches the narrow path that we walk on. All views come from self deception and result in a faulty view of the danger and the value of the things and people in this world. The bible calls this our natural dullness to spiritual things.
Hebrew poetry redefines all personalities and all images of creation. We must understand that God orders our lives with unfathomable detail. Our natural tendency is to trust in our view as we plan our future. But Hebrew poetry is written to expand our view. It is written in the way that God recreates our lives in a very simplistic form. We meditate on the outline of the unfathomable detail as God views our future. It does not matter how long we go through preparation. Because the preparation of one generation affects the next generation. We never stop preparing our future until we reach the mountain.
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