It is God who knows our way

Ps 142 1 I cry aloud to the LORD; I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.

2 I pour out my complaint before him; before him I tell my trouble.

3 When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way. In the path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me.

4 Look to my right and see; no one is concerned for me. I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.

5 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

6 Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me, for they are too strong for me.

7 Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me.

These prayers of David were written from his personal experience. Because they are the inspired word of God the Holy Spirit inspired David to write the words of his experience that were perfectly applied according to Gods covenant promises. All the words of scripture are inspired by the Holy Spirit.  You will find that the OT is written in the words that were taught in the Temple from the Psalms. This is more than just a response of David as he was hiding from Saul in the cave. 

We are taught in the scripture that we were created to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. We glorify God by thinking, speaking and acting according to His word. Because Gods word has brought all things into existence. God created the earth from nothing by speaking it into existence. Every reality that makes us a person was spoken by God from eternity past. God has spoken everything into existence in our past, present and future by the word of His mouth. 

The standard of Gods side of the relationship with us is His perfect creative work that is accomplished by what He has promised to us according to His perfect attributes. He has spoken His promises in covenants and decrees. He has sworn to uphold His covenant by signing the promise in His own blood. When the Psalmist expresses his troubles or prays for an answer it is not really according to the Psalmist description of the trouble or the perceived goodness in the promise but it is according to Gods standard of perfect recreation. So the Psalmist expresses both his troubles and his joys in longings that cannot be understood. 

This is why the Psalms go beyond the personal struggle of the king. The Psalms are written as if the Trinity was interacting according to the standard of the holistic understanding of the word of God applied to the interior struggle of the Perfect Man. These human reactions are both understandable and mysterious. "When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way." In other words God has ordered all experience in His perfect word so that His knowledge of our experience consumes our present human experiences. 

We must understand that God has spoken His promises and covenant in our language. In this sense the covenant language is Gods response to us and His presence in our experiences. This language is the communication of the heart that temporally satisfies our desires because it swallows up all of the false communication that weighs us down. The Psalms are an honest reaction to the troubles of this world that contains the re-creative fiber as we are transformed by transparency. This is the book of the perfect language of the human heart.