The godless control of guilt and shame - thinking outside the box writing.

When the Psalmist is saying that a wicked says in his heart ..."there is no God... or where is your God?" The wicked man is not necessarily intent on doing something sinful by an action. The book of Psalms is describing the thought life of many different types of sinners as opposed to a righteous person. There are many personalities of sinners. Your interior way of thinking is exposed by how you speak. This is why you can have a person who acknowledges that there is a God but they are hiding from God. They use guilt, fear, and shame as their way of control as if there was no God, just like the other personality of a wicked man clearly shows they do not believe in God by things they do.

This is why Ive been saying that any teaching where you say I have freedom to choose for myself is dangerous in the biblical sense. Because the Psalmist is describing men as God views them in this interior war. "The wicked plot on their beds, hunt down the weak who are caught in the scheme he devises"...there is the progression...God looking at the motive , thoughts, and commands on mens lips.

This is why you come to the nt and you find that the people who look most righteous are actually called wolves. They are looking like they believe God but in reality they are using these methods of guilt, shame, and fear in their natural way of thinking as if there was no God. Ive seen men teach this kind of religious fanaticism with impunity. There is no man who can avoid being a player in this world that is not viewed by God ...if you were to examine all the thoughts and intents of men that are creating a course in this interior war.

God is looking at the interior destruction of a person and not necessarily the physical. We are always centered on the actual people in our lives but God is more interested in changing us from the inside. I mean over these last thirty years of meditation... mostly on the Psalms ...i have an interior compass...the things that I preach to myself. The Psalmist speaks to his soul. "Why are you down cast oh my soul?"Our way of growing...ie hearing preaching is a way to be converted. This takes two people..the Pastor and the congregant... but the bible also teaches us another way to convert ourselves.

We focus on Christ in our worship and we experience this new trust. But we can also preach to ourselves and learn how to think correctly.... in this perfect communication of Christ image. We naturally think that we must accomplish something in order to be more like Christ. But the bible tells us who we are and we become that. There are commands to "think on these things" through out the bible. We have this interior vision of the perfect man as a self refection of who we are. That vision determines who we think we are. It is this stream of thinking...the habits of our thoughts that is what God is watching. (In the sense of allowing and preventing) The Psalms bring the image to reality in our minds.