Ps 36 1"in your light we see light." The Psalmist is teaching that Gods
doctrine must be taught in order to know who God is. God cannot be known
by coming to mystery. A lot of people build their knowledge of God like
a Buddhist. Buddhist believe that through focus we can achieve the
state of nothingness. We are able to get our minds where we have no
thoughts. But the christian believes that knowledge of God is not
separated from the doctrine of God. This is why we believe that
all reality is in God and the only way that we can understand this
reality is to confess each individual doctrine as our trust in God. We
believe in a confessional reality.
This means that christian
fellowship and unity that defines relationships is determined by our
confessing together clear doctrines that we agree upon. We cannot even
define who we are as christians unless we confess our doctrinal
position. When we talk about the whole counsel of God we are always
confessing that we hold to the doctrines of grace and Gods absolute
sovereignty. According to our agreement on these doctrines is how
unified we are in relationships.
In this Psalm we find that Gods
kingdom teaches us to confess the truth about the wicked. The Psalm is
not comparing our experience with the world. But its teaching that Gods
kingdom has been established by His word and we view everything in this
world according to the clear doctrines of His word. An "oracle" is our
conviction about the world that is based upon looking at the world as we
are standing in Gods eternal kingdom. As we are confessing that Gods
love and faithfulness are covenantal, His righteousness and justice go
higher and lower than this earthly experience, God alone controls the
preservation of living things, all true value is in Gods hands and
overrules all attempts to devalue Gods creation, and that our lives are
in Gods hands just as our corporate confession of the doctrines of grace
are that by which we receive eternal life. Upon this practice we judge
and over come the world. "God sees" is speaking of God overcoming our
opposition through our confession as we are looking back at our lives.
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