Ps 63 8 My soul clings to you;
your right hand upholds me."
Gods word is timeless. His word is His revelation and prophecy. It teaches us who we are and what our purpose is. It is the only revealed communication from God on this earth. When we meditate on His word , we are listening to God speak as if He were speaking to us from the mouth. There is nothing that exist by chance. If anything comes into being it is from the mouth of God. So God pronounces the existence of all things as time goes on. In Gods world nothing is out of order so that nothing surprises God.
This eternal word never changes. We may view things in a time sequence but the world is eternal. Everything that God created will be renewed. Every space in the universe is owned by God. Now listen, because God rules every square inch of time and space it is the same thing as saying that God performs in our world by His covenants. His covenants are yea and amen and they also preserve our lives through all eternity. God acts to deliver us in the absolute sense by His right hand according to the persevering power of His right hand. Now listen, at any time this right hand action is available to us as the means of being delivered from all powers that oppose us.
This means that Gods wings are His ability to contain our preservation through His word that creates our safety.God pronounces recreation through His laws, decrees, statutes, curses and covenants. So God word reorders all of time. When we mediate on Gods word we are speaking to Him in praises, petitions, pronouncements and confessions. As we meditate on His law we are reordering all things according to His desires.
We must understand that when we are saved we are implanted with the seed of the word of God. This is why we are taught in Psalm 1 that the man who mediates on Gods word is like a tree planted by the source of life. Our growth in faith is germinated. We are implanted with the whole word of God. God has given us a holistic salvation. The problem is that we must know what we have obtained. This entire kingdom of words is like finding gold. The Psalmist expresses its value by comparing to being in the heat of battle and in danger of death but being delivered by God. So we believe that these pronouncements in the Psalms create the quality of our salvation. What we do not know is to our disadvantage. As time goes on we add to our own grief by our neglect.
The reason is that our salvation is designed to always dominate by the laws pronouncements. In other words our quality of our faith should always be on the level of destroying the opposition through pronouncing the gifts..law, covenants etc. We should be like the warrior who has fought and won every battle. This is what the Psalmist is speaking of when he says "Your right hand holds me fast". In other words when he prays he has experienced the total destruction of the enemies of Israel and feels contained in the creative language of his prayers.
You see God word is timeless. Meditation transcends time. A meditation that was 30 years ago is part of the present experience. So these former times revisit our present experience. This is what the Psalmist means by Your love is better than life. Life is lived in time and circumstance. But Gods word breaks into time and space. The former praise generates the present praise.
This is why the Psalmist compares Gods word to feasting. Because Gods word answers our frustrations and meets our needs. This is what it means to be indwelt by the Spirit of freedom ..where the Spirit is there is freedom. We are people who cannot live without knowing God. And we cannot be free unless we know that who we are so that we can know what we need and be satisfied that we are enjoying our freedom. He is saying that knowledge of God comes from meditating on Gods word. But the difference of God knowing us and our knowing ourselves is that God must teach us about ourselves as we seek to know Him.You see God is the only one who knows us better than we know ourselves.
God must impress upon our minds the immediate answers to our individual needs but He must also grow us up so that we are able to enjoy a relationship of equals. In other words we know God enough to understand how He works. God not only creates the culture and the things of creation but He creates the foundation of our security. God communicates on our level and teaches us about ourselves that no one else could communicate to us.
your right hand upholds me."
Gods word is timeless. His word is His revelation and prophecy. It teaches us who we are and what our purpose is. It is the only revealed communication from God on this earth. When we meditate on His word , we are listening to God speak as if He were speaking to us from the mouth. There is nothing that exist by chance. If anything comes into being it is from the mouth of God. So God pronounces the existence of all things as time goes on. In Gods world nothing is out of order so that nothing surprises God.
This eternal word never changes. We may view things in a time sequence but the world is eternal. Everything that God created will be renewed. Every space in the universe is owned by God. Now listen, because God rules every square inch of time and space it is the same thing as saying that God performs in our world by His covenants. His covenants are yea and amen and they also preserve our lives through all eternity. God acts to deliver us in the absolute sense by His right hand according to the persevering power of His right hand. Now listen, at any time this right hand action is available to us as the means of being delivered from all powers that oppose us.
This means that Gods wings are His ability to contain our preservation through His word that creates our safety.God pronounces recreation through His laws, decrees, statutes, curses and covenants. So God word reorders all of time. When we mediate on Gods word we are speaking to Him in praises, petitions, pronouncements and confessions. As we meditate on His law we are reordering all things according to His desires.
We must understand that when we are saved we are implanted with the seed of the word of God. This is why we are taught in Psalm 1 that the man who mediates on Gods word is like a tree planted by the source of life. Our growth in faith is germinated. We are implanted with the whole word of God. God has given us a holistic salvation. The problem is that we must know what we have obtained. This entire kingdom of words is like finding gold. The Psalmist expresses its value by comparing to being in the heat of battle and in danger of death but being delivered by God. So we believe that these pronouncements in the Psalms create the quality of our salvation. What we do not know is to our disadvantage. As time goes on we add to our own grief by our neglect.
The reason is that our salvation is designed to always dominate by the laws pronouncements. In other words our quality of our faith should always be on the level of destroying the opposition through pronouncing the gifts..law, covenants etc. We should be like the warrior who has fought and won every battle. This is what the Psalmist is speaking of when he says "Your right hand holds me fast". In other words when he prays he has experienced the total destruction of the enemies of Israel and feels contained in the creative language of his prayers.
You see God word is timeless. Meditation transcends time. A meditation that was 30 years ago is part of the present experience. So these former times revisit our present experience. This is what the Psalmist means by Your love is better than life. Life is lived in time and circumstance. But Gods word breaks into time and space. The former praise generates the present praise.
This is why the Psalmist compares Gods word to feasting. Because Gods word answers our frustrations and meets our needs. This is what it means to be indwelt by the Spirit of freedom ..where the Spirit is there is freedom. We are people who cannot live without knowing God. And we cannot be free unless we know that who we are so that we can know what we need and be satisfied that we are enjoying our freedom. He is saying that knowledge of God comes from meditating on Gods word. But the difference of God knowing us and our knowing ourselves is that God must teach us about ourselves as we seek to know Him.You see God is the only one who knows us better than we know ourselves.
God must impress upon our minds the immediate answers to our individual needs but He must also grow us up so that we are able to enjoy a relationship of equals. In other words we know God enough to understand how He works. God not only creates the culture and the things of creation but He creates the foundation of our security. God communicates on our level and teaches us about ourselves that no one else could communicate to us.
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