Friday, October 9, 2015

The transperancy of repentance

Ps 42 9 I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

All reality is created by God. There is nothing that exist in the physical or meta physical that does not come from Gods spoken word. When the Psalmist faces opposition and he complains about God forgetting him , he is saying that he is struggling with opposition because God has not lowered Himself to the level of satisfying his desire by communicating that God is with the Psalmist. The point is that God is absolutely free to be questioned by the Psalmist about anything that God is able to change. When we come to God with boldness we are only genuine and free in our communication to Him when we speak to God as only bringing our need. In this sense we are weighted down with sin and corruption and God is absolutely free in the sense that there is no weight that He cannot handle. 

God communicates to us in through anthropomorphism. God speaks to us in lowering Himself to our understanding by taking on human characteristics. God is only free in our view of Him as a man when there is nothing that is strong enough to thwart His desire and will. We are only free when we view Him as substitute that we are as successful as His is as a man. When the Psalmist complains about oppression , he is saying that the perfect communication is God allowing us to be as prosperous as we are able ...as God has gifted us ...so that the opposition to the highest expression of our prosperity is man attempting to thwart our achieving Gods standard. Sin and corruption are not just destructive but they are the force that weighs us down so that we are prevented from receiving all the good that God has given. This is why all of our opposition is a redefinition of Gods perfect description of His kingdom that are spoken in words of violence as threats to our personal kingdom safety. We can say that we dwell in the kingdom of peace because we are enjoying the benefits of the substitution of the only real man. The opposition to this peaceful communication comes from the kingdom of hate which is the cause of all our personal problems. Since we do not have the vision that God has, we are not able to examine the level of anger that we experience in this violent expression.  

This is why the Psalms teach that the personality of Satan is exposed in Satan's children.  The Psalms do not describe Satan. But they teach that Satan is exposed by the personality of his children. The point is that all the invisible forces like angels, demons, Satan , cannot speak to us apart from the communication that opposes Gods word. We are not able to be the judge of these invisible creatures. But we know that God opposes these spiritual beings by being completely successful in Christ speaking the judgements on them , so that we follow a warrior who overcomes our opposition , by His obedience to the whole law that is able to support sinners who are made righteous granting us blessing and preventing us from being cursed. We are able to pronounce blessing in the sense that even tho we fall short of the laws demands we still fall back on the obedience of Christ in receiving this blessed substitute. This expands our heart of praise. At the same time we are able to unburden our anger by speaking the curses so that in Christ dying we kill the satanic personality or language. In this sense we experience true identity which is transparency of repentance.

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