The power of our renewed desires

Ps 131 1 My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

When we are saved we are given Gods desires. These desires are like carrying a new baby. We are purposing to be successful by protecting these desires. These desires are beyond our understanding. This is why the Psalms teach that the measurement of these desires are compared to the perfect creation of Gods kingdom in speaking everything into existence. We have a reflection of our soul that is mysteriously mirrored in the fulness of God. 1 " My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty".This phrase is interchangeable..could be my eyes are not haughty , my heart is not proud. Hes talking about how he views everything in comparison to Gods covenants, laws, decrees and promises. The result of putting these words on his lips in the form of petitions, pronouncements, curses and promises is that his desires go beyond the attraction to the things of this earth which he cannot control. "I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me" {Potential danger or Promises }

" My eyes are not haughty;" Here the Psalmist is acknowledging that everything in this life is under the direct hand of God because He is the only one who can redeem them.To redeem the things in this life there must be a death in order to create life. The Psalmist is saying that his renewed desires can only be pure when he has given up hope that there is another way to find redemption. He must kill anything that is opposed to salvation and be fully delivered.  In other words to die to self is to be consumed in Gods anger, love, and covenant promises by praying in accordance with the Psalms. Dying is being under the compulsion of Gods attributes that are mysterious. "But I have stilled and quieted my soul;" Or there is nothing that rises up in me that gives me confidence of any other relief other than God delivering me. 

In this stillness God speaks salvation. The old desires have been killed in experience and the new desires rise up from deep to deep. Ps 42 7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. Or the experience of being consumed by Gods desires is like being under the power as if we are in the ocean being tossed by the waves. It could be pleasures that rise up in us like waves crashing on the shores. Or experiencing His kingdom control pressing in on us like we have a spiritually strong back bone. He is saying here that he has experienced the death of his desires to obtain deliverance by self effort and he has killed the self confidence that opposes his renewed desires by cursing the destructive ideas that are presented by the opposition. He has come to the line of blessing and cursing as is experiencing mystery. His soul is filled with hope.