Ps 31 6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols;
I trust in the LORD ".
When we are saved all of those former things that we trusted in have been put to death by our being united with Christ in His death and resurrection. When the scripture speaks of our identity with Christ in His death it is saying that we died to those former ways by the law cursing them. Even tho we still are corrupted yet in order for us to be labelled "Idol worshipers" the law that speaks death on our behalf would no longer be Gods enforcement that keeps us from being condemned. This is why the apostle never addresses us as proud but as saints. The problems that we had under the domination of the sinful nature are now a reason for us to learn how to use the law correctly to kill what has already been rendered powerless. These sinful courses are no longer powerful enough that we are identified with the wicked.

The Psalmist is repeating the first commandment with the punishment to those who worship other gods.The Psalmist uses the curse as an instrument of divine wrath to kill the opposition. But we are not under the bondage of a law as a rule. But we have been made free to choose for ourselves what is most pleasing to us. So the thing that an unbeliever is marked as an idol worshiper in the pleasure he enjoys of that idol does not apply to us in how we receive pleasure from that same thing.In other words our hatred is not separated from our physical desires. We are not disembodied angels who represent Gods standard of law keeping. But our physical desires are part of our spiritual desires.This has become reversed. Now when we attribute idol worship to the physical attraction to a thing we sin in lowering our identity to the shame that Christ has freed us from. 31 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.8 You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place."
In other words God is not looking to see if the desire is evil but He is eying the difference between the old disposition of bondage and the new disposition of freedom...or spacious place. The point is that the unbeliever uses these things for the purpose of preventing us from being successful as God has opposed idol worships in the curse. To be free in the christian life is to be dead to that thing...our christian state that is most opposed and hated...not to avoid it. So the circumstances of bondage in the unbeliever is a threat to the believer. The covenant language is never abusive or threatening. But it is a language that kills the guilt virus. It prevents the believer from being captured by the idol worshiper. We live in a world where blind hate is like physical murder. It overcomes the bondage and allows us to enjoy those things for Gods glory.