Saturday, May 1, 2021

 

Rom 10 3Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them."
When I was just beginning to grow in my christian life I had an overbearing conscience. A lot of people have problems not feeling guilty when they do something wrong. But mine was the opposite. I could not believe that other people were doing the same things that I was doing that were wrong. I just naturally believed that I was the worse guy in the room.
I dont believe that my problem of believing the best in people was something I had to stop completely. I think there are weaknesses in people that can be used for good. So its not trying to change who we are but using our natural abilities to motivate us to be balanced by Gods word. Everything that we experience , whether it is sin or good must be translated into desires that motivate us so that we use them to mirror Gods and mans reactions in the bible.
When I start to memorize the Psalms I found that thinking the best of people was actually a gift. Because when you think evil or the worse then you go to worry about being a victim I found in the Psalms that David spoke honestly in his prayers to the Lord. I can explain it like this. There a personality disorders Paranoid, Anti social and avoidance, in each person. Every person reacts differently. So I found that David in expressing his problems did it through his disorder. It appears to a person who is not struggle with the same faulty reactions to be acting. In this sense the Bible is teaching us that expressing the sorrow or the pain is the way to overcome it. And this is why we have group therapy. Its a people sitting around in a circle talking about the same problems and being consoled.
But I learned that the Psalms are like the therapy group. In this world everything is put into a program that people follow in order to grow in learning how to over come their different problems. But the Psalms challenge all counsel. Someone could give an answer that everyone accepts but the Psalms are like a micro scope that you view what that person is teaching. So we are taught that its good to express yourself in the disorder that you are plagued with. And we must also believe that all counsel that is applied to a persons life are not absolute.
Another thing I learned over many years of Psalm meditation is that God has gifted certain people with the ability to help us have a more balanced frame of reference. God at different times puts these people in our lives. This is not professional as much as spiritual gifts. We know that it happens when we experience the person as a muse. And when God has done His work then they move on.Most all of the real change in our lives does not come through knowing Gods standard and understanding how we do not measure up to it. The Psalms teach that change always comes through the avenue of our attractions to things that we like.
This is why I spend so much time writing about the value of he curses. It takes a lot for me to become bitter at people. I still struggle with believing that people do bad things like me. Now if someones who struggle with a different disorder did this he would emphasize a different part of the Psalms. This is the book where God does magical things in order to balance the person out. Most people find their weakness as reminders of how bad they are. The only counsel that will help is the Psalms.
When I speak the curses its an advantage that I have a natural bend to think the best of others. Ive found that the people react in total rejection of the curses are the people who have a controlling personality. To a controlling person if there is something out there that is mysterious that controls the good and bad then it seems to be outside of the control of words and people. The hardest thing for some people is to give up control to God. Just offering a perspective that you do not normally hear but is in the bible.

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