Conversion

Ps 57 1 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me, for in you my soul takes refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.2 I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills [his purpose] for me.3 He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me; "Selah" God sends his love and his faithfulness.4 I am in the midst of lions; I lie among ravenous beasts-- men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.6 They spread a net for my feet-- I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path-- but they have fallen into it themselves. "Selah"7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast; I will sing and make music.8 Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.9 I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples.10 For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies11 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth."

This Psalm expresses our deep need. It confronts our frustration as we seek to be successful in this world.  1 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me, for in you my soul takes refuge. Here the Psalmist repeats himself with a plea for mercy. The Psalmist believes that God has established His kingdom through the perfect application of His law, covenants, etc. In the Psalmist mind, he has been established to fall back on Gods security which actively works for his protection. You will find that he describes those who oppose him as men who speak words that are opposed to the words of God. The Psalmist always puts this in a universal application and not actually describing the men who are opposing him when he writes the Psalm 9" I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples".The Psalmist is saying that he is caught in this universal struggle between God and Satan or evil. The Psalmist is expressing the natural desire of his heart. 2" I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills [his purpose] for me". The christian is one who has been saved into a kingdom in which his heart or desires are united with Gods word. The Psalmist is expressing his frustration according to his opposition ...in his inward experience of feeling threaten and helpless that can be consoled and made successful by the amount of physical exertion he puts into exalting God.

He is confronting his frustration with his vision of God overcoming all opposition by establishing His throne over the nations through winning the battles. The kingdom of God is spoken through words that are healing, peaceful, kind, and gentle. The greater the opposition represents the success of the culture of threatening words. He is using the description of the enemies that he confronts in the battles as metaphors for the kingdom of words that oppose Gods kingdom that are part of the culture that he must confront as he hears them and is threaten in interrupting his way of thinking. This is an expression of a righteous person who is growing through this self talk as he more and more recognizes the opposition to the kingdom of God that dwells in him. The expression "let your glory be over all the earth" is uniting the reality of this kingdom in his heart with the wish that God would rule in an absolute sense. In confessing this Psalm ,he is experiencing a conversion. It would follow that if God were exalted in reality then the Psalmist would follow Him in ruling the nations. It is absolutely necessary in being converted that we enforce this vision as we grow closer and closer to ruling with Him.