When I was in my twenties and thirties I was busy memorizing most of the NT. Those years of meditation were mostly intellectually appealing to me. Around the time that I became engaged to be married I was memorizing the whole book of Proverbs. It was kind of like the NT experience. I learned a lot of the absolutes of the doctrines of the bible. But when I began to memorize the Psalms those intellectual meditations took on personalities. I began to really believe that the Bible was Gods spoken word. As God speaks we hear things that are gonna change us into something we believe we are so the former way we viewed ourselves is gone forever.

This was the application that I had been missing. I guess I can compare it to a time in our lives where we had a conversation with someone and it had such an effect upon us that the experience and the words were sort of etched in our souls and our memories of those times come rushing back as if we were reliving the experience all over again.

This is sort of the way the Psalms are written. They are written through the reactions to the events on this earth in the experience of Jesus. Within these deeply personal expressions are the reactions of God in the flesh. As we meditate on them they draw us into God speaking in a way that is beyond the words on the page. I can only explain this as God clearly speaking so the heart is enlarged as if the words swallow us up in eternity..which is like hearing the voice of God in a penetrating and mysterious way. The result of this is a distinct experience of serene quietness of heart that has driven a peace in the heart that cannot be explained. It is this experience that develops a peculiar disposition. 

In the Psalms the voice of the flesh is violence. There was no need for violence before the fall because there was no fear, sorrow, dread, or corruption. Perfect love cast out fear..or the perfect dependence upon God is reciprocal love. To be violent is to express your desires as your own god. But to be free is to express Gods word from His view of the created person or thing. Gods perfect word is the complete unity of the working of all thing as He speaks them into existence. God creates and recreates all things by His perfect word.

 When our experience is united with Gods description of the working of all things we experience mystery. Mystery is dwelling in Gods attributes, ie His love, kindness, gentleness,...His patience long suffering and power...this is what the Psalms describe as Gods rest. , as He recreates our world by His perfect word.  We are to be harmless as doves.

When we react to our circumstances in the flesh we react in anger. Anger is simply a reaction from something that was not in us originally. It is a desire to set our circumstances straight through our own effort. When we allow anger to prosper it is like filling up a cup with the disposition of the flesh..fear, sorrow, rage, jealousy etc. Because we do not apply Gods love through His word we grow to enjoy the communication of the flesh because the anger is the fertile ground for these dispositions.

But we should be overflowing with Gods love and grace. We should feel Gods love rising up in us like a spring of water. Some people think that the way to have Gods love welling up in us is to just focus on all the good things in salvation. But to know Gods love we must subdue the earth. We must develop a way to consume the anger before it gets to our actions. We must know  the Christ who has all things placed under His feet. I will explain this further.  

  Psalm 35

26 May all who gloat over my distress be put to shame and confusion; may all who exalt themselves over me be clothed with shame and disgrace.

27 May those who delight in my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, "The LORD be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant."

28 My tongue will speak of your righteousness and of your praises all day long.

Christian vindication -143:

1 O LORD, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.

2 Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.

The bible only blesses saving authority. When the bible teaches about salvation and deliverance it is always in this context of a new desire. But this desire is not just a religious desire. It is a universal desire to support life and healing. If the Psalmist separated the political desires from our religious saving desires then all of the words used in the context of war - our life and death would be taught in each context...the political context and the spiritual context. But we cannot separate these to different  occupations. To be delivered in the saving sense is to overcome all opposition. There is no two equal sides that are contradictory that are taught in the bible. Everything that we go through in this life is toward our being delivered spiritually. 
Why is there such a hard line on this principle? Because there are only two options in this life. We either have eternal life or we are cursed with eternal death. So salvation is synonymous with living in a blessed society. And eternal death is being cursed with living in a threatening society that is destructive, This is exactly how the Psalmist uses the saving words here to include our experiencing abuse. To side with someone who is abusive is to be abusive. It is the same thing as a wicked man who curses those he opposes. Cursing is equal to anything that is destructive. 

Im not talking about the curses contained in the law of God but the curses of the wicked. 

The Bible teaches that God created the earth to show He that could prove Himself faithful, kind, long suffering, gentle, and just. He gave man rule over His creation but He put boundaries up so that man could not rule absolutely. In the counsel of God, He purposed to create the earth to show that His will could not be thwarted in order to unify all things so that He alone could get the glory. God's governmental authority over the earth was exercised in His written covenants that He made with man. These covenants are irrevocable.

Because God made man a moral agent, He gave man a compass so that every man was free to create his own government. Each man is fulfilled as he subdues the earth. When God made man with a moral compass , He gave man the ability to design his own government so that man could rule over Gods creation. From the beginning of time God has saved His people in order to show His covenant faithfulness by putting His kingdom in His elect. This kingdom is Gods gift to His people to deliver them from all opposition and bring them safely to heaven. When God places His kingdom in His people , He frees them from all opposing powers.

Over an over again the Bible warns us about putting our trust in men. But if you study the bibles usage of the word "men" you will find it is in this context of government. In this warning the bible is going beyond the power of one man to include the system of man. The system of man is in conflict with the government of God even tho God establishes human government. So the purpose of God establishing human government is to show that He alone is just, faithful, holy and sovereign by His judgements that God decrees upon all human governments.

When the bible describes these different cultures and occupations of men it is in the context of Gods view and not our view. We are looking up to the top but God is looking down over the highest authority. Our covenants that we make in Gods view are untrustworthy. But Gods covenants that He makes with us overrule all powers and are a display of His attributes that we praise Him for with the back drop of human governments failures.

Salvation is in God alone who delivers from every evil scheme. When we are saved we enter into Gods kingdom which is His recreation of all things. We are given a complete salvation when we are born again. "Old things are passed away...behold all things have become new." When we are born again everything that we are and have is a gift to us from God. God establishes His kingdom success through us. The reason that we cannot fail is because God has not only gifted us with this new kingdom but He has gone out before us and done the work in order to establish this kingdom by taking ownership and ruling all things. He has put all of our corruption and sin behind us because Christ has established our completed identity which has already been given to us. We cannot fail because we are in Christ. This is what the bible describes as freedom.

The personality is simply how we view the world and naturally react to it. Each one of us is given a different personality with different mixtures of lesser personalities that are natural to other people. The natural personality that defines another person is to a lesser degree part of who we are.

We see that Jesus was able to fully identify with every person on a perfect personal level. Jesus could read the heart and experience the other persons experience. Jesus was the perfect man who acted as a real mediator for those He died for. He also identified with those who are wicked and acts against their wickedness in a way that He would feel if their experience was His.

I believe the ultimate purpose of Jesus in identifying with all men in a way that we cannot understand was to create a world where every man fit together in a relationship like a puzzle. In being completely holy Jesus had to know and understand our struggles perfectly. Jesus was focused on us so that we could focus on ourselves and accept ourselves. He creates our identity from His perfect perspective.

I believe Jesus when He was on this earth displayed the perfect reaction and spoke the perfect words according to His knowledge of our identity. In Col. it says that He holds all things together . So from before the foundation of the world Jesus created us with an identity in which He could perform His perfect creation and recreation.

So Jesus had to identify with us by getting into our skin. But at the same time He had to be above the limits of human personality. He had to identify in such a way that He had to take on the perfect personality which is going outside of Himself and identifying fully with each person. The  natural  personality of each man.

We find this inner experience of Jesus,....His emotional life... His reactions to events...His ability to rise above all the identities of man who are put in a box ...and He had to know perfectly how to mold the world by recreating the events and people to reflect His perfect vision of how everyone is to fit together.

This is what He has done in the Psalms. He has provided the experience of the perfect man who is not limited to one personality. In speaking the Psalms we enter into a spiritual world...a conflict between limited human emotions and divine power that creates freedom beyond the box. We experience the feelings of Jesus that are mysterious.

"1. OUR wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. For, in the first place, no man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone......2. On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself." John Calvin

Calvin talks about coming down after viewing God to look in ourselves. He emphasis the big difference there is between us and God.  Because we are sinful and unholy and God is eternal and  beyond our idea of holiness then we see ourselves as insignificant concluding that we are all sin. But I want to go in another direction.

Because God is holy He is everything that His law describes. He can only accept His standard of law keeping. But we must understand that Gods law is the sustaining design that upholds everything. There is nothing in this world that was not designed by God that does not function apart from Gods design. We may conclude that sin and the curse have changed the design of things and in some ways thwarted the purposes of God to bring glory to Himself. But we must understand that in Gods original creation He left no stone unturned, left no detail out that would alter His purposes.

When sin entered the world God had already planned for His purposes to be fulfilled through sin and corruption. From the beginning of time God spoke everything into existence which includes His design for that person or thing from the beginning of time to the end of time. We have a hard time seeing the value and the logic of God in how things work out in our daily lives but there is nothing that happens that is beyond Gods control or His explanation.

We must understand that we do not possess that powers,vision, or the experience that God has. This is why the Bible says that God rules from His throne. God rules from His throne by speaking things into existence in detailing all things in creation in being successful in working all things for His glory because He is upholding His law.

God is the governor over the world. His ruling the earth is said to be the success of His law being carried as a timeless display of His heavenly kingdom. That heavenly kingdom has been given to us when we are saved. When we look at God we view Him separated from all kingdoms of the earth because He overrules all the corruption and decisions of man who oppose His purposes. Because He has put His kingdom in our hearts, He has given us the ability to experience of uniting with us in living with an understanding that all things are unified and upheld in this kingdom so that we are secure and made whole. We are said to have the fulness of God dwelling in us. Now He has become our defense and works to reorder all things to expand the success of His kingdom in us that cannot be thwarted. This is beyond our ability to work by the succession of our choices.