Ps 69 26 For they persecute those you wound
and talk about the pain of those you hurt."
This Psalm teaches us the cause of all pain. Pain comes from sin and corruption. The very presence of corruption is something that cries out against us. It is like someone presenting a case against us. We must understand that pain is the worst enemy and most personal enemy that we must endure. Pain is a universal problem that is common among all men.
All men possess the law of God. We naturally describe the violation of the law of God in terms of a physical or spiritual pain. All men face a problem when explaining the opposition according to the limits of pain. No matter what we face in this world and the focus we put upon that object it is always put in the language of the weight of joy or pain. So pain can be a stigma to us. Its not the pain that we fear the most but its being under the control of the pain. So all of us understand the power that pain can exercise over us. This is why we use pain as a way to judge the value of everything in this world.
Just think about this. If we experienced no physical or psychological pain in handling the things and relationships in this world then we be free of the control that limits us from exploring our purpose. The truth is that because pain is entwined in our communication as a threat to us we experience the opposition to our full potential.The more that pain influences our culture the more timid we are in reaching our full potential.
We were not made to experience the process of death that results in pain. Our familiarity in experiencing pain is the reason that we inflict pain on others. Pain is like a disease that keeps us from our full potential. The problem is that we lower God to the person who must use pain as we use it. But instead of God being controlled by pain, He is in control of pain.
We must understand that when Adam sinned God cursed all men. This brought about corruption that brought pain into the world. But God never used pain like we use it. God took care of pain as fast as it was introduced to man. God had to destroy sin ,corruption and pain by a substitute. From the very beginning when man sinned God pursued man in the garden to redeem that sin and pain. Now listen to me. God does not inflict pain. Pain is a result of sin. The problem is that we bring God down to our experience and put Him under our control by thinking that pain can only be dealt outside of redemption. God has destroyed pain by His death. This is why we call salvation going from a state of bondage to being set free. God saves us from using pain to accomplish our purposes. He destroys pain in the curse.
And here the Psalmist is complaining about the wicked who are still in bondage to pain. In other words they talk about the pain of the elect in order to inflict the pain of guilt. He describes this as bondage to scorn. In order for the Psalmist to be free from this attempt of the wicked to put him into the bondage of that scorn the Psalmist uses the curses to free himself. You see the presence of pain is the reason that we promote violence in this world. It is the cause of murder. The bondage of pain is so destructive that God had to die in order to destroy it. There is only one way to be free of the culture of the miss use of pain and it is to put it to death in the curse.
and talk about the pain of those you hurt."
This Psalm teaches us the cause of all pain. Pain comes from sin and corruption. The very presence of corruption is something that cries out against us. It is like someone presenting a case against us. We must understand that pain is the worst enemy and most personal enemy that we must endure. Pain is a universal problem that is common among all men.
All men possess the law of God. We naturally describe the violation of the law of God in terms of a physical or spiritual pain. All men face a problem when explaining the opposition according to the limits of pain. No matter what we face in this world and the focus we put upon that object it is always put in the language of the weight of joy or pain. So pain can be a stigma to us. Its not the pain that we fear the most but its being under the control of the pain. So all of us understand the power that pain can exercise over us. This is why we use pain as a way to judge the value of everything in this world.
Just think about this. If we experienced no physical or psychological pain in handling the things and relationships in this world then we be free of the control that limits us from exploring our purpose. The truth is that because pain is entwined in our communication as a threat to us we experience the opposition to our full potential.The more that pain influences our culture the more timid we are in reaching our full potential.
We were not made to experience the process of death that results in pain. Our familiarity in experiencing pain is the reason that we inflict pain on others. Pain is like a disease that keeps us from our full potential. The problem is that we lower God to the person who must use pain as we use it. But instead of God being controlled by pain, He is in control of pain.
We must understand that when Adam sinned God cursed all men. This brought about corruption that brought pain into the world. But God never used pain like we use it. God took care of pain as fast as it was introduced to man. God had to destroy sin ,corruption and pain by a substitute. From the very beginning when man sinned God pursued man in the garden to redeem that sin and pain. Now listen to me. God does not inflict pain. Pain is a result of sin. The problem is that we bring God down to our experience and put Him under our control by thinking that pain can only be dealt outside of redemption. God has destroyed pain by His death. This is why we call salvation going from a state of bondage to being set free. God saves us from using pain to accomplish our purposes. He destroys pain in the curse.
And here the Psalmist is complaining about the wicked who are still in bondage to pain. In other words they talk about the pain of the elect in order to inflict the pain of guilt. He describes this as bondage to scorn. In order for the Psalmist to be free from this attempt of the wicked to put him into the bondage of that scorn the Psalmist uses the curses to free himself. You see the presence of pain is the reason that we promote violence in this world. It is the cause of murder. The bondage of pain is so destructive that God had to die in order to destroy it. There is only one way to be free of the culture of the miss use of pain and it is to put it to death in the curse.
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