We must understand that the ultimate reality is only understood by God. Because God is the only one who is free to do as He wills. God is absolutely free. All other wills can be thwarted. But the real reality is that God created us like Himself. But because our wills can be thwarted we do not have the ability to see reality without some kind of bias. So every persons view of reality is their own view.
This is why that disunity exist in the world. If everyone were able to be completely free they would need to do as they will as God has created them. If everyone were able to do as they will with the fullest expression of their gifts and attributes then the world would be the highest pleasure and appreciation of the exercise of the gifts that answered everyone else gifts. There would never be a reason to thwart someone else will. We must understand that God created us to express our will without opposition. The frustrations of all human beings is the inability to have the freedom to be soverign. I mean a little soverign.
Before sin entered the world man enjoyed the ability to desire, will and act without confusion. But when sin entered then man was made unable to choose good. Now here is the thing...when man is saved that old will is destroyed. Calvin says that the old will in the personal sense in not destroyed. In others words to totally annihilate the will would be to create a robot. But the evil that reigned in man that made him unable to choose good died in Christ. And the will that was under the dominion of the evil desire was destroyed.
This is why mans view of himself and his understanding of God is described in the Psalms as the righteous desire. Any one who has memorized the book of Psalms and meditated for 35 years knows that the desire is the central part of the expression of the law that God implanted in the elect. In other words unless the law is successful in dethroning evil and corruption then we are all hopeless and ruled by the curse. We must understand that just as Gods curse is the weight of the law that prevents man from being as evil as he possibly could be, so the reality that we live in is a wrestling and overcoming the desire of the wicked. Evil is not a mystical force but it is the actions of evil men who get what they desire.
We must know what we desire and we must be able to express our desires to God. Our desires are only real as they are formed by Gods law, covenants, curses, statutes and promises. Now listen...the only true self knowledge is pursuing our desires until they are satisfied. You must understand that the Psalms are written to prosecute our success by our desires. If a persons desires are thwarted then its the same as being a non person. The Psalms teach us how to get what we desire by communicating the gifts. law etc.
We must understand that these gifts are pronouncements that unite our identity with our success. The number one reason that people are not successful is the confusion they have of themselves and their purpose. When we are saved our problem is not that we have too high of a view of ourselves. Because the very fact that we are saved is that we have self knowledge because we know we are sinners. Our problem is that we have too low of a view of ourselves .We do not actively use Gods word to unite our desires with our purpose. The Psalms are pronouncements and human expressions of frustrations of the thwarting of the desire. But the central experience of Christian pleasure is in the desire. So we can focus on the desire and find pleasure that is not determined by anything in this world. If God is free because His will cannot be thwarted then He is pleased to grant us success as He is successful