Ps 46 1
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
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Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
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though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. "Selah" .... 5 bGod will help her at break of day.God is outside of time. Gods purposes are not subject to the constraints of time. When the Psalmist speaks of the new day he is not really speaking of it in the constraints of time. Because time puts boundaries on our image. On how we are viewed in this world. In this sense we are always opposed by the judgement of the demands of time. But Gods judgements are absolute at all times. Because Gods judgements are eternal. Our success is based upon Gods transference of His attributes. Because God blesses us according to His eternal attributes. So then God opposes our opposition as He is completely just at all times. In Gods view He is absolutely successful in His judgements because there is no one who can thwart His purposes. Since Gods judgments are not under the constraints of time we define this God as eternally existent. Gods eternal existence is mysterious to us. This mystery is an every present help to our time constraints.
Our adversity to time is motivated by our understanding the mysterious power of God that goes beyond our understanding. So time works as a measurement of the curses power. The apostle says that the world is on a course. This course is defined by the constraints of time. The constraints are how we are viewed according to the limits of the attributes of time. Time is sort of a personality in which all the measurements are limited to the finite. At every tick of the hand it forces us to view the world by progression. Progression is not a creative idea. Progression is simply being controlled by progress. In this sense we are always motivated by non being unto the worth that we obtain by our progress. But God always defines us according to His view that is not constrained by the limits and measurements of progress.
In this sense as time forces us to view our own image according to the finite we are being opposed by the curse. All men face the failure of the constraints of the tension of time that opposes the exercise of spiritual gifts. When we say that the Spirit has made us free we are making value distinctions that go beyond the measurements of time. The opposition of the curse of time is always trying to define Gods image of us with the limits that are faulty. Because we do not create as God recreates us. This is why the Psalmist speaks the curses because he is fighting against the tension of these limited judgements. He is seeking to feel the weight of the eternal variables. In actively opposing the power of time he faces opposition from men who are under the dominance of the limits of time. This is the extent of the spirit battles in a meta physical value system.
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