Ps 143 5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.
Meditating on Gods word opens up a meta physical world behind the physical world. The reality of the world is according to our view. Each person views the world different from the next person. When we mediate on Gods word we are creating a new reality that the Psalmist calls Gods works. God has ordained whatsoever has come to pass by doing the work necessary to accomplish the creation of every thing. Our view of the world according to our limited space, our imperfect knowledge of origins and the working of all things , and our biased corruption. But God works every thing by creating from nothing. The reality of existence coming into the physical world by the will or desire of God is what the Psalms describe as a wonder
When the Psalmist extols Gods grace he is describing it as being present in a world in which all every thing that exist is a gift. There is a difference between an intellectual knowledge that God gifts us with every thing and sense of the presence of God as the creator of those gifts. The Psalmist is describing the wonder of Gods emanations that come through God speaking the next event into existence. The apostle says that we live and move and have our being in God, In this way as we meditate and consider we sense the wonder and beauty of the creation of the next event. To consider is to be wrapped up in the pleasure of the work of God that exist as the meta physical foundation that prevents men from being consumed by sorrow. This experience is the reality of Gods recreation
When the Psalmist speaks of being blessed by God, he is in some ways talking about being enlarged by this pleasure that is coming toward him In this way we all live beyond the physical experience of this world. We walk around in the meta physical reality which is the measure of the unity and cohesiveness of our experience.Ps 1 "2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.Whatever he does prospers". The Psalmist is teaching that the holistic experience in life is done through the art of mediation. He compares the results of mediation as a tree growing by the source of life. He is establishing the foundation of the existence of the meta physical blessing of God.
This is why the Psalmist teaches that every thing that is put into existence comes from Gods word. Nothing would be exist or be sustained unless God spoke. In this sense as we experience reality in this world we are under the constraints of the creation of all that we experience according to God speaking. 17 4 As for the deeds of men-by the word of your lips I have kept myself
from the ways of the violent.5 My steps have held to your paths;
my feet have not slipped. The Psalmist is not just saying that he walks according to Gods law that prevents him from violent men but he is saying that all the words of God create the environment in which the Psalmist is protected from violence. The Psalmist is not declaring that he has become God by living according to Gods law but that the blessing of the covenant is equal with the total establishment of the sphere of protection. So the actions of men and Gods word are the sphere of Gods creation.107 20 He sent forth his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave".19 till what he foretold came to pass,till the word of the LORD proved him true". Gods word is a prophetic pronouncement of a new event that proves that He is true.Its true from the single view from eternity.
12 6 And the words of the LORD are flawless,like silver refined in a furnace of clay,purified seven times. In this Psalm he is teaching that every reality is described by God. All the things that are spoken into existence have a reason and a purpose that can be described by God. The entrance of sin was the beginning of the redefining of reality, You could put into a parenthesis the purified reality of God as Gods kingdom and mans false system or government as mans experience of the curse. When the Psalmist is speaking about Gods word being purified seven times he is talking about its effectiveness to overcome all opposition. And so it is in the context of Gods sphere of protection over His elect; The pronouncement of His laws , decrees, statutes, curses and covenants are the creation of the new reality just as the existence of the law of gravity.

Ps 103 1 Praise the LORD , O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD , O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
This is the Psalm that teaches us that we are accepted by our Father in heaven. The Psalms are written in a way that our understanding of salvation is confirmed in speaking them. They are not written like other teaching passages. If we want to know God we must speak to Him correctly. We must know Him by speaking His covenants, curses, precept's, laws etc We see there are words on the page that we must put into the context of the whole bible. But we cannot understand the application of these words by a mere word study or gaining a better understanding of the systematic doctrines.
We learn truth by our experience of how words are used in our present culture. But in the scriptures we are learning the culture by being present before a holy God. This Psalm is describing the disposition of God as our Father. This is really the way the Bible is written. It is God Himself speaking to us as if He was walking with us. It is not just a God who is so holy that we cannot look upon Him. But He is a God who is knocking at the door so that He can come and fellowship with us. Well this Psalm is God speaking to us in the most personal way. We are so easily convinced that if a guy tells us what God is like then we just accept that. We have a hard time learning what God is like by fellow shipping with Him in His word.
This is why we get into extremes. If we are not familiar with Gods Fatherly care then we teach that He is unapproachable by our lack of familiarity by knowing Him. We are like an open book and we are read by people in our general disposition and the way we talk about people and where we get our answers. We may be able to describe the intellectual understanding but our hearts are always exposed by the personal application of scripture. So God is speaking to us in this Psalm like He is drawing us into His fellowship by the very words that answer all our needs.
Who forgives all you sins and heals all your diseases? The point of this question is that our Father is asking us this personal question. The question itself draws us to a single answer. Its like a parent wanting a hug and speaking acceptance to us with open arms. Its a question of total acceptance and a promise that is always kept.
Our Father is describing His faithfulness in the covenant that He swore to uphold. He says he forgives all our sins, heals all our diseases , he crowns us with the foundation of His law so that the most rest that we can have is to enjoy the limits of our responsibility and at the same time rest from our works- in crowning us with love and compassion, does not treat us as we deserve because we are sinners, He has removed the problem of being motivated by guilt in forgetting our sins. He has dealt with us according to our needs and not according to our responsibilities because He knows that we are too weak to perform in our own strength. And then the Father reasserts His covenant with us. Of all the words He speaks it is a reaffirmation of His covenant love for us. He curses the wicked and at the same time He loves us with and everlasting love.
When He speaks His covenant to us He focuses on His faithfulness , kindness and love as that by which we are confident that we will be sustained when we are weak and sinful. You mediate on this Psalm and in pronouncing Gods whispers as our Father we are bold as lions in overcoming all opposition in this world.

A lot of people live in the culture where the Bible is a book that is mainly for interpreting and applying. In other words its a book that gives us confidence so that we can accomplish a task to overcome a problem in our lives. So we approach the Bible as it it gives us the right medicine to take.
But the bible is really Gods spoken word to us. We should have respect when we hear it or read it as if God were talking to us. So the bible is a book that tells us who God is by His word. God has created us like Himself. And yet each one of us is completely different than the other guy. This means that God created us with one purpose that is essential to fit together with other men who have a different purpose. So you can imagine if all men were talking to God then He would be looking at every persons desires being expressed in the most free way to achieve what they are fulfilled in accomplishing. And yet God has made each sovereign free action of a person to fit together like a puzzle that brings about the most positive unity of the world.
But when sin entered the world the free exercise of all the gifts of men became opposed by everyone sinful actions.This opposition is what the bible describes as redefining or rebelling against Gods word. Every problem that man faces both interior and in the word is a form of communication. You can see that when sin entered the world the communication of man became extremely complicated. In a world where there is no opposition to Gods word is a world that is very simple. There is a myriad of evil thoughts that do not exist. There is a myriad of evil responses that are not being experienced. So God had to reorder and renew all things by His word.
Most of our problems come from a disconnection with Gods order. If there were no evil or corruption in the world then all men would be free to exercise their gifts to the fullest and the most honored. In other words there would be the highest connection to Gods creation and the experience of a totally unified culture. But man fell from this kingdom that was created by God into complete darkness. Man was disconnected from the order of that kingdom which we call total darkness. Could you imagine a world where every communication of pleasure, beauty , honor, glory and praise was coming at you instead of you working for it. So we say that there is nothing that we can do to be connected to this reality unless God comes to us.
You must understand that Gods word never returns void because it goes out and renews the reality back to the kingdom of God. It sets every thing in order we begin to experience connection to every thing as God created it. Now dont miss interpret what I am saying. But God never accomplishes anything outside of the working of the word and Spirit. His word can never be thwarted. We can picture every thing in our christian experience as being real because it is designing our reality in coming to us. I mean we could complain, question, experience the most awful shame and disconnection but it does not prevent the success of Gods word coming at us. This is why the word itself attest the truth of its reality. This is why the word itself is the remedy.

Ps 56 7 On no account let them escape;
in your anger, O God, bring down the nations.
8 Record my lament;
list my tears on your scroll -
are they not in your record?
9 Then my enemies will turn back
when I call for help.
By this I will know that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD , whose word I praise-
11 in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
The Psalms teach that the two roads ...one of salvation and deliverance and the other of destruction and suffering are two different communications. Every person lives according to what he believes. There is no person even if he believes something that is not correct that will not die for that belief. But the problem is that those who are wicked do not understand that they live in darkness. Most of the troubles in this world are done by people who reason from blindness but will swear that they are right.
The bible calls living in this blindness a path of destruction. When man fell into sin the Devil presented an argument that was not entirely correct. He told Eve that she would have knowledge as God if she partook of the fruit. But it was knowledge that was under the power of sin. It was the possessing the curse. Man now knows guilt , fear, shame, and hate. The opposition to the success that man enjoys has created a war within man. That war is the presence of pain. The level of pain is the anger that man feels in fighting against the pain.
A lament is an expression of sorrow or regret. It is anger that is experienced as pain being rolled over to the God. The result of the experience of being opposed is to weep. Anger is a gift of God that prevents us from being consumed in our sorrow. But the anger that is sinful is selfish anger. This anger is the sinful way to deal with sorrow because it adds to the sorrow. In other words it is like the pain of a sore that we suffer from and if we are angry for the wrong reasons then we will infect that sore and cause more pain. We will add to the heat of the anger. But God has given us the way to use the anger to deepen our convictions.
We must learn that Gods wrath is without regret. Gods wrath is always completely justified. This is why anger is not uncontrolled outburst or sharp words that destroy. But Gods anger is who He is. Rom 9 33 "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall,and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
When we are angry at God we just experience more destruction. His anger defines His hatred for violence. But righteous indignation is pleasurable in the sense that the anger is justified in the defense of Gods purposes. The righteous anger is not uncontrolled outburst but a having a lack of feeling as we experience the pleasure of being defended by God. But the inward struggle to unburden the anger is the lament.
When we are saved we go from being enemies of God ...who are at odds with God...to being friends of God. The Psalms teach that a friend is a friend of a friend of God. So there is no longer a difference of personal friendship and the community of friendship. As we are friends with our brothers we are kind to ourselves. The reason that we now are friends with God is because He has lifted the curse from us. Everyone in the community have been set free from the bondage of sin and death. Now listen...the curse of the law is the same as God coming to us first and addressing the problems we have with anger. In other words God shows His kindness to us by giving us a sure way to find relief in His justified wrath in using the curse to prevent us from being selfish with our anger. Gods love is always controlled towards us in His decrees from eternity past. He loves us as He loves Christ. He loves us justly. So the love is not emotional but legal. But we are always wanting to be loved emotionally.
The problem with being loved emotionally is that we approach God according to our present feelings. But the truth is that God never delays His response in meeting our needs according to the amount of emotion that is necessary to get a person to move. Rather God simply speaks and it is done. So too with Gods anger. God does not burst out with hot anger. But God simply speaks the judgement and it is as if it was always experienced as something that was decided in eternity past. If we pray to God and address Him according to His responses to the injustices of the world we will learn that it is always satisfied in the pronouncement of death. It is simply Gods avenging His own purposes. Its not boiling over. And if we approach God as a God who simply speaks and it is done then we are absent of the emotion that has no basis of our trust and we will be empty of our vain selfishness. Then the emotions will flow out of us. This consistent place of Gods justified creation will unite us to Gods presence in the word and Spirit. We will experience the overflowing love of God coming to us.

Ps 103 1 Praise the LORD , O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the LORD , O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits-
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
This is the Psalm that teaches us that we are accepted by our Father in heaven. The Psalms are written in a way that our understanding of salvation is confirmed in speaking them. They are not written like other teaching passages. If we want to know God we must speak to Him correctly. We must know Him by speaking His covenants, curses, precept's, laws etc We see there are words on the page that we must put into the context of the whole bible. But we cannot understand the application of these words by a mere word study or gaining a better understanding of the systematic doctrines.
We learn truth by our experience of how words are used in our present culture. But in the scriptures we are learning the culture by being present before a holy God. This Psalm is describing the disposition of God as our Father. This is really the way the Bible is written. It is God Himself speaking to us as if He was walking with us. It is not just a God who is so holy that we cannot look upon Him. But He is a God who is knocking at the door so that He can come and fellowship with us. Well this Psalm is God speaking to us in the most personal way. We are so easily convinced that if a guy tells us what God is like then we just accept that. We have a hard time learning what God is like by fellow shipping with Him in His word.
This is why we get into extremes. If we are not familiar with Gods Fatherly care then we teach that He is unapproachable by our lack of familiarity by knowing Him. We are like an open book and we are read by people in our general disposition and the way we talk about people and where we get our answers. We may be able to describe the intellectual understanding but our hearts are always exposed by the personal application of scripture. So God is speaking to us in this Psalm like He is drawing us into His fellowship by the very words that answer all our needs.
Who forgives all you sins and heals all your diseases? The point of this question is that our Father is asking us this personal question. The question itself draws us to a single answer. Its like a parent wanting a hug and speaking acceptance to us with open arms. Its a question of total acceptance and a promise that is always kept.
Our Father is describing His faithfulness in the covenant that He swore to uphold. He says he forgives all our sins, heals all our diseases , he crowns us with the foundation of His law so that the most rest that we can have is to enjoy the limits of our responsibility and at the same time rest from our works- in crowning us with love and compassion, does not treat us as we deserve because we are sinners, He has removed the problem of being motivated by guilt in forgetting our sins. He has dealt with us according to our needs and not according to our responsibilities because He knows that we are too weak to perform in our own strength. And then the Father reasserts His covenant with us. Of all the words He speaks it is a reaffirmation of His covenant love for us. He curses the wicked and at the same time He loves us with and everlasting love.
When He speaks His covenant to us He focuses on His faithfulness , kindness and love as that by which we are confident that we will be sustained when we are weak and sinful. You mediate on this Psalm and in pronouncing Gods whispers as our Father we are bold as lions in overcoming all opposition in this world.

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.

A lot of people live in the culture where the Bible is a book that is mainly for interpreting and applying. In other words its a book that gives us confidence so that we can accomplish a task to overcome a problem in our lives. So we approach the Bible as it it gives us the right medicine to take.
But the bible is really Gods spoken word to us. We should have respect when we hear it or read it as if God were talking to us. So the bible is a book that tells us who God is by His word. God has created us like Himself. And yet each one of us is completely different than the other guy. This means that God created us with one purpose that is essential to fit together with other men who have a different purpose. So you can imagine if all men were talking to God then He would be looking at every persons desires being expressed in the most free way to achieve what they are fulfilled in accomplishing. And yet God has made each sovereign free action of a person to fit together like a puzzle that brings about the most positive unity of the world.
But when sin entered the world the free exercise of all the gifts of men became opposed by everyone sinful actions.This opposition is what the bible describes as redefining or rebelling against Gods word. Every problem that man faces both interior and in the word is a form of communication. You can see that when sin entered the world the communication of man became extremely complicated. In a world where there is no opposition to Gods word is a world that is very simple. There is a myriad of evil thoughts that do not exist. There is a myriad of evil responses that are not being experienced. So God had to reorder and renew all things by His word.
Most of our problems come from a disconnection with Gods order. If there were no evil or corruption in the world then all men would be free to exercise their gifts to the fullest and the most honored. In other words there would be the highest connection to Gods creation and the experience of a totally unified culture. But man fell from this kingdom that was created by God into complete darkness. Man was disconnected from the order of that kingdom which we call total darkness. Could you imagine a world where every communication of pleasure, beauty , honor, glory and praise was coming at you instead of you working for it. So we say that there is nothing that we can do to be connected to this reality unless God comes to us.
You must understand that Gods word never returns void because it goes out and renews the reality back to the kingdom of God. It sets every thing in order we begin to experience connection to every thing as God created it. Now dont miss interpret what I am saying. But God never accomplishes anything outside of the working of the word and Spirit. His word can never be thwarted. We can picture every thing in our christian experience as being real because it is designing our reality in coming to us. I mean we could complain, question, experience the most awful shame and disconnection but it does not prevent the success of Gods word coming at us. This is why the word itself attest the truth of its reality. This is why the word itself is the remedy.