Ps 86 11 Teach me your way, O LORD ,
and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name."
The Psalmist is teaching that we are being renewed on a daily basis. When we are renewed we are being changed to be more like Christ. This change is taught in the Psalms as being converted. But at the same time we were completely converted when we were saved. So the Psalmist is pronouncing the complete change in order to unite his vision with Gods activity. So he says "give me an undivided heart" that is united with 12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;I will glorify your name forever.13 For great is your love toward me;" He is teaching that we go through change by being converted. There are conversions that we go through that so small we do not realize they are happening and there are conversions that we experience that are testimonies.
Our hearts are being more and more enlarged as we experience Gods eternal love. But we are frustrated and opposed by our corruption. We are taught that we are saved and righteous in Christ but we are also being saved or delivered. He calls this future salvation as a word of salvation or a testimony of conversion. This is why he prays 86 17"Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me". So the Psalmist is distinguishing between these secret changes and the outward change.
We must understand that the Psalmist teaches that we are all born into a world where wicked men and self righteous men have planned the evil that is in our world. We must acknowledge that the evil is preventing us from these outward testimonies. In Ps 59 the Psalmist is complaining about the evil that prevented the Israelite from taking part in the first Passover. He is saying that Israel was prevented from the Passover because of the presence of Idol worshipers that were in their cities. So the second Passover was a testimony that God had removed the idol worshipers.
We must understand that all the circumstances that we find ourselves in are created by God. Our experiences are always under the power of God who allows or forbids. All human frustration comes from being anxious and restless in the circumstances that we find ourselves in. We are taught in the Psalms that all reality is Gods pronouncement of allowing and preventing. We think that the lean and slow times are from our sins .On the other hand we think that the active and successful times are from our abilities. But the Psalmist practices pronouncing the law, covenants, curses, and promises as the future word of salvation.
No matter what we go through or how we relate our experience with our failures and successes we cannot change the way that God decrees everything in our lives.Our problem is that we do not believe that the world is moved by God allowing and preventing. We must understand that God decrees everything as it relates to our potential of being in danger. He is not really trying to enforce moral change in us. Because the Psalmist is teaching that we are already righteous before God. God does not need to force us to be righteous. Its hard for us to learn that we are no longer in a relationship with God as a school master. We go from total rebellion against God in our former life to being in danger of harm from the world. The Psalmist is describing the process of renewal that answers our hope as moving from one testimony to another. He is saying that sometimes when we think that we are only turning our wheels is when God is hiding us from danger. And when we are successful God has removed the opposition. So the Psalmist is always looking for the testimony that allows the success from the deliverance from the opposition.Ps 86 11 Teach me your way, O LORD ,and I will walk in your truth;
and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name."
The Psalmist is teaching that we are being renewed on a daily basis. When we are renewed we are being changed to be more like Christ. This change is taught in the Psalms as being converted. But at the same time we were completely converted when we were saved. So the Psalmist is pronouncing the complete change in order to unite his vision with Gods activity. So he says "give me an undivided heart" that is united with 12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;I will glorify your name forever.13 For great is your love toward me;" He is teaching that we go through change by being converted. There are conversions that we go through that so small we do not realize they are happening and there are conversions that we experience that are testimonies.
Our hearts are being more and more enlarged as we experience Gods eternal love. But we are frustrated and opposed by our corruption. We are taught that we are saved and righteous in Christ but we are also being saved or delivered. He calls this future salvation as a word of salvation or a testimony of conversion. This is why he prays 86 17"Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me". So the Psalmist is distinguishing between these secret changes and the outward change.
We must understand that the Psalmist teaches that we are all born into a world where wicked men and self righteous men have planned the evil that is in our world. We must acknowledge that the evil is preventing us from these outward testimonies. In Ps 59 the Psalmist is complaining about the evil that prevented the Israelite from taking part in the first Passover. He is saying that Israel was prevented from the Passover because of the presence of Idol worshipers that were in their cities. So the second Passover was a testimony that God had removed the idol worshipers.
We must understand that all the circumstances that we find ourselves in are created by God. Our experiences are always under the power of God who allows or forbids. All human frustration comes from being anxious and restless in the circumstances that we find ourselves in. We are taught in the Psalms that all reality is Gods pronouncement of allowing and preventing. We think that the lean and slow times are from our sins .On the other hand we think that the active and successful times are from our abilities. But the Psalmist practices pronouncing the law, covenants, curses, and promises as the future word of salvation.
No matter what we go through or how we relate our experience with our failures and successes we cannot change the way that God decrees everything in our lives.Our problem is that we do not believe that the world is moved by God allowing and preventing. We must understand that God decrees everything as it relates to our potential of being in danger. He is not really trying to enforce moral change in us. Because the Psalmist is teaching that we are already righteous before God. God does not need to force us to be righteous. Its hard for us to learn that we are no longer in a relationship with God as a school master. We go from total rebellion against God in our former life to being in danger of harm from the world. The Psalmist is describing the process of renewal that answers our hope as moving from one testimony to another. He is saying that sometimes when we think that we are only turning our wheels is when God is hiding us from danger. And when we are successful God has removed the opposition. So the Psalmist is always looking for the testimony that allows the success from the deliverance from the opposition.Ps 86 11 Teach me your way, O LORD ,and I will walk in your truth;
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