Gods single purpose for us. 

Ive been living this christian life for a very long time. Most of the time I am frustrated because I hardly ever in complete agreement with the teaching. I get frustrated when someone teaches that salvation is by grace but then they teach a totally different option with different purposes. Im old enough to see that society is going in the direction according to what is allowed and not really how the person aligns themselves with the law of God. I ask myself how can a person who really reverences God go out and be genuine in the world? I think either they prevent themselves from getting dirtied by choosing their friends and avoiding other people. What I have described is exactly the two lines that they teach. This is the same kind of prejudice that is exhibited as someone who doesnt like a certain race.

If we have a category for redemption to be settled in the future than inevitably we have a cause not to act now. In my opinion this overshadows the communication of orthodoxy. I am so obsessed with creating disunity that Ive developed a shield around myself in private in which I cannot rest until I have cursed it. I have learned that grace is like a companion and when that person gets attacked I become restless. The only hope of rest is to understand the total teaching of grace and then to find the hole that was pierced in the grace boat through meditation on the Psalms so that it can be closed up and we can rest in Christ. If grace does not unify truth then we are hopeless to unify our body with our soul and live in unity with our culture.

Grace teaches us that we live in a kingdom in which God has provided our safety by speaking everything into existence in us and in our circumstances that are either for ordained as a gift for our good or reordered for our good. The Psalmist depicts the terrible circumstances that he was in prior to his deliverance in the worse terms. He calls them a miry pit. In other words it wasnt just a pit that was over his head but it had quick sand that would swallow him up. But he says that God lifted him out of the miry pit and set his feet on a Rock. Now listen the Rock is God violent and destructive work to prevent His elect from being mortally wounded in war. In other words the Rock provides the boundaries of safety within the walls of Gods kingdom. 

As a result of being delivered from the miry pit and put on a rock God also gave Him new shoes, clothes, and put a song in his mouth.This shows that in Gods kingdom we are provided for and set free as if we skip around singing songs. Later on the Psalmist adds to this depiction. He says that God will do many wonders on his behalf, the things that God has planned are to great for us to understand. What is this new promise? Is the Psalmist saying that in the future God will bring us all to heaven and then we will get what Christ has earned? Not really. We believe it is already gifted to us but its in the future it will be fully experienced.

This already part is where it becomes a matter of contention for me. Because Ive been saying that Gods promises to us have been legally binding. God has sworn to uphold His covenant to His own hurt. There is not wiggle room for an island of non action by God. A lot of Calvinist say that if we lower God then we are making it hard for ourselves in this life. But if there is a possibility that we must have hope because of something that is promised in the future then its the same thing as lowering God because we tie His hands to act on our behalf now. When we allow God to have His hands tied we exalt man. And so this is where cursing comes in.