If God created the world according to His laws, covenants, curses, decrees, promises, and statutes, He must also create the desire in humans to understand and give God glory for His works. So we live in God's garden, where everything in the world must be redeemed. The Psalmist teaches, "My heart says, seek His face. Your face I will seek." When we meditate on the axioms, we learn to ponder on God's works.The author of the Psalms pauses to reflect on the fact that God is the cause of everything that happens in the world. He realizes that his own life is a story of redemption, made possible by God's grace.Everything that he has done was caused by God. As he makes meditation a discipline, he is drawn into seeing everything through recreation of the axioms.He not only provides everything we need, but causes us to reflect on His works. The truth is not found in the events, but understanding we gain when we contemplate the axioms. 111:2 Great are the works of the LORD; they are contemplated by all who take pleasure in them". We were designed to spend our lives observing the world through the lens of the axioms. People who do not live in this way may think we have wasted our lives in meditation. However, since we live in a history of redemption, we are reminded we were made for God, since He is the ruler and governor of this world.The Psalmist answers the question how we survive if we spend all of our time pondering the works of God. They suggest that we can be depended on when we are seeking to ponder God's works. They ask if we are wise in using our time pondering the history of redemption.The first question we must answer is "How are we related to this world?" The Psalmist is teaching the world is a majestic display of God's works. we are dependent on the creation to understand ourselves.God made us part of a greater diversity that depends on one another for unity. Our views of the future are never completely correct because we are afraid of being dependent on parts that have been cursed. We must learn to push the curse down in our trials, and see the future for what it is: a series of interconnected parts we cannot control. Since history is redemptive, God must turn it upside down. This means the things of the world are taken away from the owners. "He has shown his people the power of his works, giving them the lands of other nations." God is keeping a daily record of saints completely dependent on Him enough to wait for everything. We are always tempted to trust in our own ability. But if we see the world behind the glass, we will learn to depend on God by being in awe of His masterpiece.
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