We look upon the light of the glory of God

Psalm 115

1 Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

2 Why do the nations say, "Where is their God?"

3 Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.

This is a Psalm that explains why God is loving towards His elect. He has protected us from being the bad guy. He has not only given us His covenant to prove that He will always protect us but He has given us the curses so that we can be released from the tension of sorrow from bad things that we experience in this world. The Psalmist reasons that the focus of our lives should be to point to God who is ultimately responsible for everything that comes into our lives. If God is not able to handle the worse things that we experience then He is not able to prove His love by working all things out for our good. And if God is responsible for adding to our sorrow then He is the ultimate contradiction. We are saying that God destroys the things that He has made. But because the focus is turned from us we can be assured that God is proving His love and faithfulness to us.

The concept of making our sorrows impersonal to us is taught in our use of our complaints and curses. The question is how can a sinner who is guilty be allowed to come into the presence of a Holy God to question and present arguments to distance themselves from sin and corruption? Here the Psalmist is using an argument the because of universal corruption all men are subject to instant judgement. But because God has taken on Human flesh ,died and was raised to life , He has substituted Himself for His elect. Because God has done the work in order to justify His elect then God has given us a reason to argue that we should not be treated like the wicked. In other words God has given us a language to describe the sorrows of this life as if He is treating us like the wicked. He has allowed us to approach Him in this transparent way so that we can experience complete freedom. If God has made us like Himself then as God is free to do whatever pleases Him then we are free to be genuine in His allowance.

See now we have an advantage over those who reject God. God has lowered Himself to our level in order to treat us as equals. The way that we experience this fellowship is that our anger, love, sorrows and sins must be consumed in His attributes. He has given us the language of the Perfect man to use even tho we are still sinners. This language has been simplified for us like we have the outline of Gods mysterious language. When we express our anger, love, praise, and sorrows in the language of Christ we are hearing a holistic communication that aligns our souls but we are being consumed in our desires ...a consuming that is mysterious. We are being changed through a mysterious language that creates in us deeper desires the are increased through more mystery. We are looking at something into a mirror with a poor reflection in this mysterious face to face relationship. We will one day see Him face to face by experience.