We get what we want

 Ps 31

1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.

2 Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

4 Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.

5 Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols; I trust in the LORD.

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.

9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.

10 My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak.

11 Because of all my enemies, I am the utter contempt of my neighbors; I am a dread to my friends-- those who see me on the street flee from me.

12 I am forgotten by them as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery.

13 For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side; they conspire against me and plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God."

15 My times are in your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

16 Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love.

17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have cried out to you; but let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave.

18 Let their lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

19 How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.

20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them from the intrigues of men; in your dwelling you keep them safe from accusing tongues.

21 Praise be to the LORD, for he showed his wonderful love to me when I was in a besieged city.

22 In my alarm I said, "I am cut off from your sight!" Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full.

24 Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD. 

When we are saved we go from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light. We are declared righteous and definitively sanctified. When we are given new life our old will is destroyed and in place we have Gods will. Now God reverses how we are opposed. We were opposed from the enemies that were within but now they are from outside. This Psalm is describing how the saint obtain what he desires. Because we enter this new kingdom we can now unite our new desires by the experience of Gods kingdom. 

The Psalmist describe the great enemy that opposes the Psalmist desires. This enemy is shame. It is a person who belongs to a new kingdom that is facing opposition who have taken Gods word and used it to bring a believer to shame. The question is what does God want for us who are faced with this opposition? He wants what we want. We want to be defended and protected. Our first desire as we face this opposition is to be delivered. Salvation is going from one deliverance to another so that each time we are delivered we bring everyone who is facing this opposition with us. 

The expression of total dependence upon God is that our lives are in His hands. This means that we believe there is nothing that we can do to deliver ourselves but to oppose the wicked through rolling all of the trouble in this world over to God. God communicates with us by being a friend of a friend of God. God blesses us by delivering us from every evil scheme. When we are delivered we hear the voice of salvation. This voice of salvation is a new conversion.  The conversion is this unhindered experience where our gifts are united with Gods work in creation...both of the created things and those people around us who share in being like minded. In other words the highest experience of deliverance is uniting our gifts with Gods order of all things. 

This Psalm is interesting in that it kind teaches us that we enter into the bosom of God so to speak. When we pray this Psalm our past deliverance come together with our new deliverance so that as we get a tighter hold on the bosom of God we create a society ...both unsaved and saved that are united. This is the bestowing of the gifts in the presence of others. We avoid the language of the wicked..slandering Gods people by focusing through this Psalm. As we distance ourselves from their violent language and we pray this Psalm we make the curse clear.  Anyone who does not rejoice in our success would be cursed. Eventually we are surrounded by people who rejoice in the success of others. We have become free so that others might be free. 
I am not a novice..I have witnesses that this is indeed true.