Our identity

Ps 9 1" I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.4 For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.16 The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. "Higgaion." "Selah"17 The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence20 Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. "Selah" 

The Psalms teach that we are most secure when we experience a complete connection to our environment because God created us to be secure when everything is unified. All of our insecurities come from feeling inferior. We are taught that if we know God then we will know ourselves. But our identity is not rooted in God as if we do not exist. Rather since we are identified with Christ we share in the unity that He shares in the Trinity. This is how the Psalmist is reasoning in this Psalm.   4" For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously." together with 7" The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment." He is saying that when we are saved our identity depends upon our desires being united with Christ when we received these desires by grace. 

A person who is inferior is always trying to prove that he is something that he doesnt really feel that he is. But the christian must think thoughts after God who has pronounced who we are, so that we are able to experience completeness without feeling inferior. This struggle to draw all of our security from our acceptance in Christ is the basis of our feeling secure because He knows the beginning from the end.  The beginning in us is that He has united us with Himself and the end is that we will rule with Him having overcome all opposition. 3" My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you."We can always be filled with hope because we are successful as Christ is successful.  "your wonders, rejoice in you, sat on your throne,,You have rebuked,and he has established his throne".The Psalmist simply pronounces Christ success in doing according to His law and covenants as the foundation of the Psalmist identity. 

The Psalmist draws his confidence by pronouncing Christ success. This is a king standing before his people and as he pronounces that Christ will fight their battles, attend to the poor and the helpless, answer all the needs of His people and over throw all opposition that he will continually speak this way to God in order to avoid the threatening words that are spoken from the identity of disconnection. 

At the same time we are required to pronounce the curse  19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.20 Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. "Selah". The Psalms teach that God prevents wicked men from destroying the world. But because of sin, men still practice destruction. When we are saved we are delivered from all threats. We have been delivered from the destructive activity of the law. God no longer encourages guilt , fear, shame and sorrow. We go from experiencing the destructive weight of the law which is the ruling power of the curse, to avoiding any kind of threatening words or actions by using the law as a tool to destroy those who are under the law through enforcing spiritual death in the legitimate use of the righteous curse. The wicked my make inferior threats but we have weapon that is directed at the destruction of the person.23" But you, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you".(not a person who sheds blood but practices using threats) Our success is never through personal anger or threats but only through the impersonal judgement of Christ. In order for us to avoid the sting of the curse we must curse the destruction for the sake of wiping the threats from the kingdom so that we can establish peace.120 7 I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war".