Sunday, October 28, 2018

  Ps 10 1 Why, O LORD , do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?"

When man sinned  he was not only cursed with destruction , but he was put in bondage to thinking and speaking in order to prove that he is his own god. The entire creation was cursed with being placed on the road to destruction and only desiring to travel toward the destructive destination. So the Psalmist describes man as not just wanting to break the law of God but being dumb enough not to avoid the self destruction that awaits him.  This is why God had to take the curse upon himself in His substitution for His elect. Because the atonement not only saved man from destruction but God turned the light on all of the opposition to man being saved. The Psalms describe two kinds of men. It is written as the light to reveal the thoughts and schemes of those who live in the dark not understanding the destructive dangers. We must understand that God gives us assurance by revealing to us that we are sinners and describing the opposition that we face as unnatural to our way of thinking.

In teaching us about who we are ,  the Psalmist describes to us the thoughts of the blind sinner. The old adage is if you do not study the enemy then you will be deceived. So God is giving us such an advantage as we live in this curse world in describing the unseen thoughts of sinners in order to disarm the danger by getting us to understand how foolish and powerless their attempts are. I call this growing down by cursing the curse.

This Psalm is written in order for us to see that our frustrations with the abuse that we experience in living in this world is important because it points to the extremely complicated scheme that is woven from one generation to another in getting us to understand the seriousness of evil. We are always taught a way of thinking in order to understand who God is and who we are. And the Psalmist describes the evils as rising up to mystery by the extreme nature of the curses in order for us to experience the distance of our fall because of the first sin. In describing the mysterious reactions of God we are learning about who God is and thus who we are. The scripture is Gods revelation to us of the unseen spiritual war that is being fought in the secret places of society. God is teaching us the reality of the thoughts and words of the wicked man in order to apply the law correctly as we gain an understanding even tho we cannot understand as God does. The curses that we speak contain both the revealed and mysterious control over the evil.

We must understand that every person knows reality by their view. There may be a trillion views of the world but there is only one reality. You see the reality of every kind of thing and person is how God describes them. And the Psalms describe real reality. The real reality is both part of our logic and mysterious to us. Even tho we cannot understand the mysterious thoughts of God, the 6 axioms that we speak as we react to Gods description of all things are worked out according to Gods understanding.. We have real power.

The Psalmist is describing evil as God sees it from its very conception. The Psalmist is giving us the 6 axioms in response to sin as it is conceived in the beginning so that we react with real feelings and understanding. We are using Gods words that are beyond our understanding so that we apply the power that is beyond our ability. We are bringing judgement together with eternity in waiting for the final judgement. 15  Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; call him to account for his wickedness
that would not be found out."