Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Ps 40 17 Yet I am poor and needy;
may the Lord think of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
O my God, do not delay."
This Psalm is teaching that when we are saved we are made completely new. We believe that God performs this renewal through recreation. This means that we complete because we have been implanted with the seed of the word of God.So the problem with experience with sin and corruption is a problem of knowledge and understanding. God has given us His completed word. In this way He has united our desires with His desires through our new creation.
Gods word is the cause of reality. Nothing exist unless it is decreed by God. We are new creatures according to all that God thinks, and plans in Him speaking every thing into existence that is greater in number and mysterious to our understanding. This means that we are renewed from a source that is abundant in its possession and performance. Its like a deep well of Gods holistic healing. Its a connection of all the preordained thoughts and plans of God for us that build the strength and the success in our lives. In this sense the wellspring of life is the unifying of Gods purposes with our desires that fill us and overflows .
God has given us a salvation that He has spoken to us in words that allow and prevent. He has created us like Himself. He has given us His word as the instrument to create. How can you create another being with a mind will and emotion and not make them like a robot? God has gifted us with a language that He speaks. It must be a language that we can understand and that answers all of our desires. But the problem is that God is so much greater in His knowledge and understanding that it is impossible for us to relate to Him on His standard. So He must complete us with a language that we can understand and yet be united with His purposes in the mysterious creation of God. God does this by giving us pronouncements and petitions that we can speak without understanding all the thoughts of God and the reasons for His plans for us. This is why the Psalmist says "May the Lord think of me." The Psalmist is pronouncing the entire scope of Gods thoughts and purposes that are united with his desires for his good.
We must understand that our renewal has ended all frustration of our desires.
13 Be pleased, O LORD , to save me;
O LORD , come quickly to help me.
14 May all who seek to take my life
be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
15 May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
be appalled at their own shame.
16 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"The LORD be exalted!" The question is then why do we become frustrated and anxious? If we have been made blameless and are secure in being completely renewed then why do we become weak and struggle like it is ineffective? Because we live in a world that is in which the well of corruption and blame is greater than our inward renewal. You see the opposition to God renewal in us is less then the deep well of Gods preordained success . God has performed the work in meeting the standard of righteousness and He has declared us righteous. So God speaks His reality in us according to the completed acceptance of the perfect man. This is why the Psalmist pronounces an open ended plea of whatever God knows about what the Psalmist needs that will work for the Psalmist deliverance.
In Gods world our connection in relationships is successful in viewing every one and every thing by our imagination of what could be in Gods future kingdom. Our success is built upon our vision and not how the elect is defined in this corrupted world. Every christian deserves the highest success and the greatest opportunity. In other words our natural disposition as Gods elect in this world is to lower Gods view of how He views His people.
So God has given us these pronouncements in order to transform our minds to believe that we are naturally fit for a perfect kingdom. We must fight against the downward pull of the world and the blame worthy way they relate. We do this by the war of pronouncements. In other words we a like kings who pronounce curses and blessing in order to rule absolutely. The problem is that we do not think and feel according to our identity in Christ because we do not think, speak and feel according to the pronouncements of the Psalms. This is how we live by faith and not by sight.
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