We were fashioned for eternity. We vicariously experience the corrosive effects of the curse of unavoidable death. No one desperately wants to suffer personal limitations because of the unpleasant curse. We are eternal souls who are under the rigid constraints of time and space with the metaphysical struggle of pathetic helplessness. When prolonged pain comes together with our emotional limitations, we appropriately give up our pragmatic imagination. In our desperate hope, we grow organically in the comforting assurance of God's divine sovereignty in pronouncing the pure line between blessing and cursing. God's domination remains not just a confident hope we will endure no pain in the eternal future but everything that transpires on this earth is ordered because He remains steadfastly a life and death covenant-keeping, God.
Why would we feel threatened by this pure line of cursing and blessing? Because we are prone to suffer severely pragmatic troubles of the world through our own vain understanding. This incorrectly is our personal inclination of believing we are autonomous. The saints undoubtedly believe they are capable of living with the pure line of good and bad through their particular strength. But genuine freedom is surrendering our personal right to reasonably manage our own lives by rising up in pronouncing blessing and cursing. But we transmit life as a valuable by-product of God consuming our own understanding of justice. When our anger is consumed in God's righteous indignation. When we accurately mark the vast gulf between our effective control and God's control. The saints rise to God's ideal line of blessing and cursing and discover the mystery. They are liberated from managing their lives.
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