Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Ps 36 9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light"

The Psalmist teaches that Gods attributes and displayed are order in creation.  5 Your love, O LORD , reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep." So we believe that all reality is spoken by God from nothing. If God designed and created the universe then there is no other reason or word that can be outside of Gods work. So even our vocabulary consist of boundaries that were given by God. So we say that even our words are borrowed from God. Everything that we are and have is dependent upon God. This is why the Psalmist says that truth is only true by how God views it. "In your light we see light." We believe that our faith is built upon pre suppositions.

A lot of people describe their ability to listen to another view as being neutral. They believe that they can view life by being totally objective. But this is not true.   Every man will swear that he is teaching the truth. There is no man who is able to teach different from what he does. He would need to have two minds. You ask a person why he does what he does and he will give you a reason that represents the belief that he would die for. So you can see there is a million trillion views of the truth.But there is only one person who is able to act perfectly according to the truth.

This means that in order for someone to be consistent in his claims he must know everything. He must be intimately involved with the smallest particles and the most hidden events.  There is nothing that is hidden from him and nothing that he does not understand. So  we would say that when we describe the truth there are two areas that give us the proper perspective of our interaction with others. The first area is that God has revealed Himself in clear and understandable truth to man. The second way is that God knows the truth that is mysterious and hidden from us. But we must understand that Gods mysterious truth does not contradict His plain understandable truth.

We must understand that even tho we understand the gospel , yet it is not true because we describe it. The gospel and the revealed things do not need us to prove they are real. So the Bible truth is set apart from all explanations because it self revelation. The Bible is true because it is reality. The Bible is the only book where the event that has already happened was planned before the foundation as if it had already come into time and space. All the words of scripture are prophetic. This is why God says that His law ,covenants, curses, promises ..etc are the building stones of His creation and recreation. So God says that the expanse of the heavens are like His love. And the expanse of the sky is like His faithfulness. You see there is nothing around us that has not happened that was not preordained by God speaking.

So the Psalmist pronounces the law, covenant etc as the declaration that it is an exercise of "in Your light we see light." This experience is both understandable and mysterious. So we are required to know that which is revealed. Every person has the responsibility to know enough to not be deceived. God has not left us with a dissociated doctrinal system. He has given us a system that is holistic. In other words one doctrine is the foundation and logic of the next doctrine until it explains the end times. So all the doctrine is tied together by a string. So we should be able to identify the inconsistencies in listening to others. But questions is does that fulfill all of mans needs?

You see it is true that we can have a peaceful quality of life by understanding the doctrine as a holistic truth. But the bible says that God is much bigger than our set of doctrines and our ability to identify that false teaching. The apostle prays that our understanding might be enlightened. That we may know beyond our ability to understand. So in this sense our growth in Christ is reaching to the height of mystery and finding more mystery. Its like an athlete who is training for the Olympics. He trains every day for hours and hours and then he does his craft in the Olympics that takes thirty minutes.He actually spends more time training than he does in performing. This is the way that are made to seek and know God. Because Gods revealed word causes us to think and ask questions. It opens our minds and our imaginations. This is how the apostle prayed . He was praying that we might know by revelation a greater understanding. This is what happens when we apply the Psalms in prayers. We experience something greater than we ever imagined.  In you light we see light..we experience your beauty and power.      

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