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Can we imagine the eternal Son of God taking on human flesh ...becoming a man who was subject to human weaknesses that resulted from being in a universe that He Himself created 2000 years earlier. Not only did everything come into existence by His breath but He ordered every molecule so that all of time could be played out in perfect symmetry and purpose in His present view. You look at His view from Heaven that is described in the Revelation. The description of the order of time from His view is told in a language that is very hard to comprehend. But from Christ view all of the entire physical paradigm is in His view so that no matter how many years pass by He describes the earth with all of these potential problems that all of mankind struggle with...putting them in the categories of the kinds of diseases and death that they will face in exact numbers. This is described over thousands of years of history. Not only does He describe the details of the fate of mankind but He also describes the destruction that will result from the corruption of all of the earth. He describes this as if He is looking back from the final judgement over all the history of mankind. So Christ dwells as God outside of time and yet knows the existence of every particle with a view that He is looking at it to examine it. This God who was a baby in the manger was as aware of the whole creation as if He was still viewing it outside of time. Its a wondrous thought that He lived among His creatures with a mysterious awareness that viewed each one of us in the future in an individual way before we existed. We live in a universe in which every square inch is inhabited by God.

I agree im speaking in the context of the covenant child. There are many questions about Gods wrath. Does God have a passionate wrath? The question is do our feelings have any positive work for the good in this world? I think this is why the Psalmist explains our feelings in the context of Gods unfathomable power. If God allowed us to feel on His standard of understanding then we would vaporize in a millisecond. Whatever height of anger we experience Gods wrath is able to swallow it up. The Psalms express Gods wrath in absolute terms at all times. Its an eternal wrath. We could explain it as Gods wrath is an expression of His full curse. There is no time where God looks at corruption and reacts in a lesser way. Because we base our reaction on emotions we fluctuate up and down as to how we respond to corruption. This is what it means that God cannot look on sin...that He is perfect in His response to sin. Gods curse is always fully working in all of time at the exact object and extent. But this is mysterious to us as God is eternal. If we were able to live with a complete understanding of Gods full curse then we would not question the reasons that He allows evil to prosper. Because of His full curse would swallow up our feelings. This is exactly what happens to the Psalmist . These prayers and songs are given in order to raise us up and unite our desires with Gods power. God has given us examples in creation and as we see the language that God uses in the Psalms in pronouncing judgement according to the standard of these creative disasters, like hurricanes, volcanoes, and feeling the movement of the earth ...we begin to experience the power of Gods curse. We are not so much moved by our personal feelings. I agree that its unconditional. Unconditional in the sense that we cannot earn Gods love. But God has stated conditions for Him to show Himself faithful to His covenant to us. And in fulfilling these conditions He is loving us. This is why He has given us His word. So that we might know what is pleasing to God or what He has promised us in this covenant. Its interesting that God has made it so that we can unite our desires with His promises or covenant conditions. I think people treat this relationship with and eternal God as following a rule book. But God has made our unconditional experience where we grow in confidence as we hold Him to His covenant conditions. We naturally are confident in ourselves , but as we learn how to boldly hold Him to His promises we learn confidence and boldness through His power and ability. This is why the words of the Bible are not really written but as if God was speaking them to us. The language of God speaking to us and the language of God teaching us to speak to ourselves. This language is the holistic creative power of God in all reality. We can say that every word is in the bible is spoken by the Trinity. Its a language of fellowship. The highest success that we can experience is speaking to God as we think thoughts after Him. In this way everything that we experience in this world has in it the compete reasons that God has ordered it for His eternal purposes. We struggle in our understanding so that we are in need of an understanding that is beyond our understanding. This is experiencing a lack of tension in mystery. The apostle prayed that we would be given and understanding that was beyond our understanding  Gods love for us is based upon His righteousness. The only way for us to be accepted is to be loved according to Gods standard of justice and faithfulness. If God loved us according to our standard of righteousness then we would need to be compliant in order to be loved. But the bible says that we are loved with an eternal love...or a love that is unfailing. So the love is set apart from all other loves. i think we can conclude that Gods love is worked out through His eternal government. When we talk about God being righteous it is in the context of Him ordering all things. When we appeal to Gods unfailing love as the basis of our receiving anything the gifts success and purpose would be in the context that is outside of this worldly system. The gift could never be thwarted by any other will.  of Truth's post. 43 "1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men. 2 You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? 3 Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. 4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God. 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God". I do not know why this was separated from 42 but in my opinion it is part of 42 In our culture we separate our personal religious experience and the reasons that we are struggling from the culture that we live in and the purposes that God has created for us. But in the Psalms Gods justice and faithfulness is displayed in bringing all things into unity. In our culture we are always looking at our personal problems and how they effect us. So when we describe sin it is how our personal sin has made us a certain way. So we describe dealing with our personal sin as being happy when we deal with it. We become guilty of reducing Gods purposes to our own private struggle. It becomes our own private interpretation. The theologians used to call this romantic application...... not theological application. The Psalmist describes his inward struggle in a universal context of Gods justice prevailing. The principle cause of problems in this this world for the christian is a wicked man who we have no personal knowledge of ,who is causing the pain. The secondary cause is our sin.