Ps 13 1 How long, O LORD ? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts

and every day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?"

The Psalms teach that everything in this life is opposed to us. If we think about the authority and sovereignty of God then our best interest would be to our most success in this world. There is only one relationship that has the potential for us to find the most perfect satisfaction in relating to everything in creation. God has the ability to make us totally satisfied with ourselves and relate to everything around us with the most pleasure.

We are born in a corrupt world. When God created man, He did not create him to be opposed. The greatest longing of our hearts is to have unhindered success. Not only is everything in this world corrupted and is pulling us to being corrupted but because we are also corrupted we fail to rise up to the ability to find unhindered opposition. We are sometimes our own worse enemy. If we were not corrupted the we would not be blind to what we needed for our every remedy. So the Psalmist believes that he is completely unable to do one thing without Gods countenance shining down His favor. So the Psalms teach that it is very very important that we understand who we are.

You see the truth is that if everyone had the total ability to understand their needs and the next decision that would be the most successful then they would need to be perfect and live in a perfect world. So the very fact that corruption exist in this world is the continuous presence of being opposed in the condition of this corruption. Everyone is opposing everyone by this corruption. This is why Gods reality of us is far greater than we could ever imagine and much worse then we could think of. You see the person who sees everything is the most able to oppose all opposition. So the Psalmist is comfortable living in mystery because he knows that in order to be free he must trust God on the level that the smallest corruption in this world is the most destructive temptation that would destroy the Psalmist. Compared to Gods ability to unite the Psalmist with the highest experience of pleasure and success in this world with all corrupted people and things , these things are totally wrong and potentially life threatening.

In order for us to understand who we are then we must be taught to view ourselves as God views us. Because if we understand how God views us then we will oppose all the communication and opinions that prevents us by teaching us an image that is totally wrong. So when we say that God knows us on the level that is too good to be true and the worse that could ever be imagined then the Psalms must be written to appeal to God on the extreme level. So this extreme level is offensive to all of the opposition of people and things in this world. The bible teaches that we must be able to overcome the low view of ourselves in pronouncing Gods high-view. This means that the language is written so that we tell God what we feel on Gods level of good and bad. In other words conversion is obtained by our overly concerned personal stake in overcoming all opposition. In other words our needs and our hurts from Gods view are on the level of life and death. There is no healing without growing to see that all of our needs must be met in the spirit of desperation. The smallest opposition rises up to our greatest abuse when we understand that God works in blessing and cursing. God is more concerned for us in our self deception or the lack of concern in others. We must learn to respect ourselves as God views us in this blessing and cursing communication in the Psalms. Our personal prayers must be so focused on ourselves that if others were listening they would be offended that we spoke as if all men were our enemy.