Ps 33 6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth....
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm."
From before the foundation of the world God designed all things in His eternal counsel. This Psalm is teaching that God created every thing by speaking it into existence. He gave life by the breath of His mouth. Every thing that God created is given the desire to survive over wanting to die. In this sense even sin is accomplished to bring good to ones self. Because every thing in the world is corrupted and is not acceptable to God.
I have thought about this for years and I believe that the standard of perfection in this imperfect world is the line between blessing and cursing. Every person is unable to attain to this standard. I dont believe that our desires that are expressed as we react in relationships are based in reality. I believe that we can only trust that God works all things at all times by uniting the curses and the blessing. This is the context of Gods power being breathed in the creation and sustaining of all things. In other words because we are corrupted our desires are always frustrated. So the process by which God renews all things is to redeem every thing that exist. He does this by His perfect justice. That line. "15 he who forms the hearts of all,who considers everything they do".
Its hard for us to distinguish between emotion and desire. To be overly emotional is to interpret our satisfaction of people or things in this life by pragmatism. In other words we devise a scheme in this we control the things of this world by our determination. This practice actually does the opposite of what we are taught as growth in Christ. It builds an emotional imaginative world that guilt enforces obedience.
But we must understand that God speaks every thing into existence. God does not wait to act. God does not look at pain in feeling and sharing but God always acts. He does not react. This is what distinguishes God from man. The Psalmist says the "help of man is worthless" compared to God. When we are teaching about redemption it is always God speaking His word and all things are united and made new. We must look at the way that God acts without emotion. This is why we have been saying that God works to redeem all things by bringing cursing together with blessing. You see cursing is the ultimate judgement of silencing the opposition. And blessing is the pure reception of Gods gifts.
Our natural desire is to identify with Christ work by emotion. In this way we are trying to create the circumstances of the cross. But this is just a pragmatic imagination. You see Gods work on the cross and His choice that determines all things is based upon His pure justice. The terrible judgement is beyond our ability to reproduce it by our feelings. The extent of the beauty and the unimaginable results of Gods work is too much for us. So God gives us pronouncements in the curses and blessings that contain the standard of His justice that we cannot control. These pronouncements are just an expression of Gods will to act. These expression are so powerful and universal that they swallow up our anger and joy. Gods word challenges our emotions. The word contains the reality. This is how we are converted. Gods ways never start with human emotion but by His will to act that is contained in the pronouncements.
their starry host by the breath of his mouth....
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm."
From before the foundation of the world God designed all things in His eternal counsel. This Psalm is teaching that God created every thing by speaking it into existence. He gave life by the breath of His mouth. Every thing that God created is given the desire to survive over wanting to die. In this sense even sin is accomplished to bring good to ones self. Because every thing in the world is corrupted and is not acceptable to God.
I have thought about this for years and I believe that the standard of perfection in this imperfect world is the line between blessing and cursing. Every person is unable to attain to this standard. I dont believe that our desires that are expressed as we react in relationships are based in reality. I believe that we can only trust that God works all things at all times by uniting the curses and the blessing. This is the context of Gods power being breathed in the creation and sustaining of all things. In other words because we are corrupted our desires are always frustrated. So the process by which God renews all things is to redeem every thing that exist. He does this by His perfect justice. That line. "15 he who forms the hearts of all,who considers everything they do".
Its hard for us to distinguish between emotion and desire. To be overly emotional is to interpret our satisfaction of people or things in this life by pragmatism. In other words we devise a scheme in this we control the things of this world by our determination. This practice actually does the opposite of what we are taught as growth in Christ. It builds an emotional imaginative world that guilt enforces obedience.
But we must understand that God speaks every thing into existence. God does not wait to act. God does not look at pain in feeling and sharing but God always acts. He does not react. This is what distinguishes God from man. The Psalmist says the "help of man is worthless" compared to God. When we are teaching about redemption it is always God speaking His word and all things are united and made new. We must look at the way that God acts without emotion. This is why we have been saying that God works to redeem all things by bringing cursing together with blessing. You see cursing is the ultimate judgement of silencing the opposition. And blessing is the pure reception of Gods gifts.
Our natural desire is to identify with Christ work by emotion. In this way we are trying to create the circumstances of the cross. But this is just a pragmatic imagination. You see Gods work on the cross and His choice that determines all things is based upon His pure justice. The terrible judgement is beyond our ability to reproduce it by our feelings. The extent of the beauty and the unimaginable results of Gods work is too much for us. So God gives us pronouncements in the curses and blessings that contain the standard of His justice that we cannot control. These pronouncements are just an expression of Gods will to act. These expression are so powerful and universal that they swallow up our anger and joy. Gods word challenges our emotions. The word contains the reality. This is how we are converted. Gods ways never start with human emotion but by His will to act that is contained in the pronouncements.
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