God gives us a gift when we are saved like winning the lottery. The gift is only as authoritative and powerful in its creative power as we understand Gods word. The success of the gift is according to our understanding of how to use the power of eternal life. This gift cannot be thwarted or destroyed. The gift in itself is the perfect government of God planned from eternity past in His view from our perspective as He works through our individual gifts to overcome all opposition and thus to bring glory to Himself. God has given us redeemed desires.
This is what is so hard for us to understand in this pragmatic age. We think that what we do adds up to all that God has planned. But God has given us something that is complete from the beginning of time to the end. The gift that is in us is Gods experience and wisdom as He has viewed everything from the beginning of time. This gift is the description of everything that God has created and sustained in His eternal counsel. He has made us complete in Christ so that everything that Christ has obtained and overcome is ours.
God has designed everything to be unified in His view that brings Him glory. Nothing is out of order or able to thwart Gods will. Gods eternal view of all of time is in us. We have the fulness of God dwelling in us. And yet just as we have our individual desires in which the scripture says are like a deep well so our redeemed desires are mysterious. This is the way the Psalmist reasons..."You know my desires" which the Psalmist is using to oppose any enemy from within or without. This reasoning is as if we have already been translated to heaven where there is no more sin , sorrow or sickness. Its like the Psalmist is resting in this perfect kingdom in his appeal through his redeemed desire.
I think the desire is more than just a mystery. It is the total understanding of Gods view in creating all things. Its the total explanation in God reasoning through His covenants, laws, decrees, and promises.This approach by God is aligned with His attributes. So Gods explanation that He has gifted to us in redeemed desires is both mysterious and understandable. God has given us His way of speaking in the Psalms. He has provided us with the language of Christ. We have a kings language. It is according to our experience in using this language as to the level of our understanding when we appeal to God on the basis of our redeemed desires.
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