454 Forums / Theology Forum / Re: The interior function of sin and grace in the creative language of the curses. 2013

God as governor of the world has provided the way of blessing. He has put limits in society in the safety of Him being a shepherd. He makes it impossible for men to be blessed through pride. God must allow men to be humble enough to treat the ugly parts of society as the essential way that He distributes His grace. God has made His rules so that there is safety and freedom in the honor of the weak. It is impossible for man to respect these rules that bring him beneath the lowest. God has provided a remedy to grow down that is not natural to man. How can a man be given grace for free and not become self indulgent? Does God take away the security of men in order to bring them down to being just men? Grace is Gods goodness freely given. How can God bring men low by only being good? He must not only provide the foundation for the enjoyment of that goodness but He must overcome the opposition by pushing it down under His feet. The Psalms provide this picture by describing God as being beneath the lowest. In other words God has overcome the lowest and the ugly parts of society. How does He do this? Does He describe an image of philanthropy? Is it from Gods desire to take care of the weak as a part of His governance? God must do more than provide a process for survival. He must identify with the experience of the lowest. He must understand the plight of the helpless. In redemption God provides the remedy through identifying with sinners going as far as He could without being a sinner. God is present in the worse places of society. God pushes the destruction under His feet in becoming a curse for us. How can we be acquainted with sin and yet destroy destruction? We who sin practice destruction. Because Christ has become a curse for us we no longer are under the curse. We can now push the curse away. There is no circumstance that can define us. We cannot be touched with the lowest circumstance because we can push the curse away in the curses. We no longer are the creators of our own image. Our being created in Christ image is His line of justice ...that perfect line between cursing and blessing that burns up any experience weve had that leaves an imprint in our personality. We experience mystery in the eternal love and anger of God.