The Psalms describe Gods standards that are too wonderful for us to imagine and too awful for us to contemplate. In our view we always hold onto our lives  in trying to work things out that  lowers the standard of experiencing Gods goodness. This is why Israel was faithless. Because they would not trust God as God promised but wanted to a government that they could control so they could get what they worked for. So instead of trusting God as their only source of protection and sustenance they complained that God was too slow in making them a Nation. So God judged the unbelievers and they wondered in the desert not being able to enter the promise land.

God always starts off with showing us that everything we have is a gift of grace. This is exactly why He made the day a 24 hour day. He separated the days into morning and evening because He wanted the people to have a view that each day was His new creation and it was different from all the other days. He wanted His people to live as if Christ was raised to life in them each morning. This is exactly what the apostle said when he exhorted them to wake up from their sleep and experience the power of the resurrection. When the sun comes up in the morning the glory of Christ brings us into an experience that is genuinely new.

But faithlessness is when those who are wicked wake up and try to prove that they are worthy by planning their own lives. They look to themselves for their rewards. This is the natural experience of a person who is under the power of the curse. The law pronounces judgement on all law breakers. In our natural selves we hear the law as a school master. We are attracted to the challenge the law gives us. If we meet the challenge then we are satisfied with the returns of our efforts. But this satisfaction is mixed with condemnation that we did not meet the challenge successfully. We are motivated by our guilt to do better the next day. Our attraction to the law and the course of our lives is leading us to embracing death. We learn to settle in admitting that we enjoy our lust. Because we have made the reward for our efforts our god. Our returns fulfill our lust.

But God has a much better way of living. Each day we get up it is a new day and God has something planned that is much greater than we could ever imagine. We will not settle with making deals with God. Instead we want to be united to Gods view of His creation. We want to experience life in the order that God has established. This way is a way of grace. God gives one day and will not stop giving. God promises us everything and He will hold onto us even if we fail to believe how good it really is. God overcomes our pain and struggles with proving that He is better than He was the day before. As each day passes God gives us more strength to trust Him more. As each day passes God is coming to us and overpowering us with His goodness.

How does He motivate us by always being good? He proves Himself to us by unifying our experience in His experience of pleasure that He gets from His creation. We are always settling for the scraps that fall from the kings table. We are always settling for a lower form of unity with a little disjointedness. But God wants to overpower us with His unity so that we will experience our full rites as His sons. As our Father He wants us to ask for big things, to use arguments for our welfare and the welfare of others. God wants us to experience the control, gifts and unity that His Son earned on our behalf. He has made a way for us to overcome all things so that we grow to experience greater unity as if we ruled the earth.