The word of God will not return void

The Psalms describe the human struggle and teach that man acts as Gods representative on this earth by seeking to be transparent before God. The expressions of transparency are the emotional language that we use to tell God how we view our circumstances. Because we are not God we do not have a circumspect view of the circumstances that we experience. This is a big disadvantage to being united to God in how He is working the events of this world for our good and for His glory. Because there is a real threat to our faith God provides for us the words to unify our view by giving us a language of our hearts. This is why I believe that the scripture is given to us so that we might think like God and experience eternity in our hearts as God has made us like Himself.

We naturally view things in our world through the eyes of Deism. Its very difficult for us to believe that God has made everything right by the work of Christ and has reordered all things to work out for His glory and for our good. God has established His kingdom over the earth and yet from our view we see events that seem to be out of control. This is the question ive been trying to answer. If God is absolutely sovereign and He has promised to work everything out for our good then how can we come to a sense of satisfaction if there is no reasonable advantage for us to experience His on going redemption in our practical lives? Has God only given us His promise that He is in control and we should accept the sorrows of this life because it is His mysterious work. Or has He given us a language in which He kills anything that is purposed to destroy us? If every time we experience sorrow we must conclude that God is doing something that we do not understand isnt this reasoning the same thing as saying that Gods power is all mysterious, God keeps Himself at arms length so that He can prove that He is God?

Here in Ps 17 the Psalmist engages the enemy like he is fighting in hand to hand combat. Its hard for us to believe that there will be times in our lives when we face a clear attack from the enemy. The christian life is not really about being devotional but its a life in which we apply ourselves to learning from the scriptures how to engage the enemy in hand to hand combat. This is how the Psalmist describes the christian experience. Its becoming proficient in speaking the covenants, curses, laws, decrees and human longings so that as we become the high priest in Gods redeeming plan we will rise to experience greater opposition.  If you have experience in using the Psalms and in pronouncing Gods words you will find this psychological battle in which there is the hunter and the hunted. There is a single line that is woven in the Psalms that leads to using these words like you have gone out to battle and faced the enemy in hand to hand combat.

This is terribly important because Satan rules men by presenting a way of thinking that is very complicated because it is motivated by spiritual strongholds. His opposition is to use spiritual powers to make the ideas that are presented in our world like a physical threat to our well being. So we face an enemy that is controlling places of authority that are outside of our level of influence. He is the Prince and power of the air. Or He creates the ideas of men as if the weight of the threats are more prevalent and powerful than Gods language of peace and rest. Hate is kind of like fire. As more people talk and plan against Gods word , we begin to feel the evil heat. You will find that its always directed toward the weak. The bible warns that mens hearts will fail them. So we are suppose to be out in the front lines so that we can prepare for the evil day in which there are multiple attacks in our circumstances that will destroy the weak. This is what we do to prepare for the evil day. We seek to define the enemies tactics through these prayers. These prayers that go out in a universal way but bring the fight to a beach head.

You will find that when the evil day comes , you will face powers in which these defensive expressions in the Psalms create a paradigm where you are fighting forces that are too powerful for you but your advancing through desperate cries. Ps 18 17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me.18 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the LORD was my support.19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. This is Gods ongoing deliverance. We naturally believe that there is a method to bring everyone to be united against the scheme of the Devil. But salvation is never obtained through the arm of man but God must kill the opposition and provide victory on behalf of His servant. To obtain real freedom Gods curse ... or His law being carried out through war ...must destroy the hunter. But it is not in our power to overcome the enemy. We are using words that are contained in themselves which are life and death proclamations.