The other side is saying God is sovereign but will not violate our wills. If God is sovereign then, He accomplishes whatever pleases Him unless He is thwarted by a greater will. We humbly acknowledge that God is free to act as He pleases. If we entertain the idea that we are free to act in ourselves whatever we desire then we would be intentionally setting up a god of our own making. I do not think gods are made merely out of corporeal things but gods we create in our minds. We acknowledge God accomplishes whatever pleases Him because the accurate idea exalts God to be the Highest.
It is in our most compelling interest to define God as "other" because we are moral creatures. If God is "other" there is no law that He is under. The law is really not the highest standard but God Himself is the highest. God is above the law I do not believe we know the absolute demands of the law. This is why the law accurately shows us our sin. I properly mean in a very crude way. As the Psalmist says who can discern his errors. So God acts in Himself as He alone is pleased with His corrective actions.
God shows justice, faithfulness, kindness, and love by acting in the unity of fulfilling the demands of the law throughout all time. This symmetry, which emanates true unity, is a Trinitarian work. This divine communication is through the spirit of the sacred words. The word of God is a coherent whole not in distinct parts. All the words are Trinitarian. Each word maintains the spirit of all the words. So in a sense, the fundamental symmetry created by meeting the demands of the law throughout all time is the spirit of one word of sacred scripture. The Psalmist considers this the word of salvation.
When the Psalmist meditates, his earnest petition to make it pleasing to create the future symmetry and divine unity of God's perfect acts. God creates from nothing and faithfully recreates the new. We experience the alignment of our souls as we discover the detail of God's recreation. We vicariously experience spiritual renewal through the sacred word and Spirit.
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