Friday, November 15, 2019

Psa 101:2 I will be careful to lead a blameless life--when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart.

The Psalmist is distinguishing between the way he conducts himself in his dwelling and his public life. In this Psalm he is describing his attitude that he learns by speaking the axioms. You see we are not just in in a world filled with danger but because we have a shallow view of sin and the destruction of evils . We must pronounce God's words in response to the dangers we face. The Psalms are written pronouncements from God's view.  This is why the words are extreme and offensive to us.

Let's put on our thinking caps. We teach that man as a sinner is not just doing acts of sin. But the wicked man is born with blindness to his sinful condition. The reason that we don't consider the danger of this condition is because we are given an awareness of our sin so we presuppose that they have the ability to understand our condition. We judge others by our personal experience. We assume that our experience is like theirs. We are our own worse enemy because we exercise too much trust in this world.

So God must bridge the gulf between His view of the world and our view by making us aware of the dangers in these extreme curses . The blamelessness the Psalmist is describing is the delight he experiences as he becomes comfortable in speaking the extreme axioms. God made His terrible vengeance clear in the pronouncements attractive to us because He made us like Himself. God wants us to think in these extremes so that we experience His presence.

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