104 29 When you hide your face,they are terrified; when you take away their breath,they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the earth" The question in this Psalm is why is their danger and terror in this world?God created the world as a display of His order and symmetry. Does the danger come from second causes? The Psalmist is describing the beauty of Gods work in the attributes we see as the creation is working from day to day. Why does the Psalmist describe this fallen creation as working in prefect unity in the innocence of the pre fall? He is describing the movements of all created things that originate from God.29 When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit,they are created, and you renew the face of the earth The Psalmist is using the logic that in order for the Psalmist to be confident that God is good and just in the creation covenant then it must be displayed in the unity of His work. But why does the Psalmist ignore the danger of second causes? Why is the danger God hiding His face? Would we be ignoring the causes and the ends if we ignored the corruption that is in the things of the world? Is God responsible for the troubles that we encounter in the second causes? Is he saying that because God is in control then we have no right to question the reasons that we are injured in the second causes?29 When you hide your face,they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit,they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. The Psalmist is describing Gods control of order and symmetry as it relates to creation covenant. If God is just and right in governing over the creation then He must determine both the good and the bad in His eternal counsel. If God has given man the authority over creation then it can only be true on the foundation of Gods perfect order in the creation.Any other logic is a contradiction. In other words Gods mysterious control over good and bad is the display of perfect unity. So God must unite His mysteries with His revealed word. He must work according to His axioms in the mystery of His decreeing good and bad.29 When you hide your face, they are terrified when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit,they are created, and you renew the face of the earth. This verse is returning man to the original authority over the creation by in the pronouncements. In other Psalms he says that God sends His word as the creative tool. "147 He sends his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly." The Psalmist is describing Gods law ,covenants, curses, statutes, promises and decrees as the communication is evidenced in the structure and the relationship that things of creation have to one another. The Spirit and the word are never separated. All things are reasonable according the axioms by the work of the Spirit. The Psalmist is pronouncing the eternal will of God in ruling.