The Psalmist is teaching that he devotes his days to meditating on God's word. What is mediation? It is simply rehearsing the creative works of God that are realistically accomplished by the active process of continuous renewal. God promptly declares all necessary things into peaceful existence into time. Time does not govern the direct course of the ideal world. So what does? The world is carefully manipulated by God's creative pronouncements of the eternal law, covenants, enabling statutes, judicial decrees, curses and promises.The Psalmist's authentic experience in this world is full of ardent longings, produced by the moral axioms. This naturally results in a holistic assurance, which leads to effusive praise, eager longings, frequent complaints, and earnest petitions. In this effective practice of pronouncing the logical axioms, he is producing a statutory environment. The orthodox longing that springs from the logical axioms produces the optimal balance of the soul. "Preserve my life in your righteousness." His steps are wisely directed in the containment of the moral axioms as he sufficiently expresses his longings in hearty praise, etc.The success of the precepts is due largely to the authoritative pronouncements of the moral law, curses, etc. The Psalmist adequately describes the prudent course of time in descriptive terms of earnest longings. Time adequately represents the oppressive weight of the terrible curse, and it is constraining and fleeting. Under the stringent constraints of contentious time, we are prone to worry and fear excessively. Time merely represents the forgotten past disappearing into the unknown future, and the moving of time properly provides a continual reminder that active life is fleeting.The Psalmist is desperate to break free from the constraints of time. The political constraints of time and the fleeting nature of personal time are forcing us all under the stringent control of the terrible curse. Our only hope of casting off the excessive weight of worry and fear is by pronouncing the moral axioms. We have no arbitrary power to wrestle with the weight of the curse. We do not have the force of will to cast off the weight of the terrible curse.The terrible curse MUST be put to death! In order to do this, the Psalmist silences the stringent constraints of time by pronouncing the logical axioms that engender fierce longings. He adequately describes his active presence in this time-constrained world as voluntarily going from one longing to another. As he is pronouncing the logical axioms, he is longing passionately to long. As he is longing to long, he is asking "how long?" He is invariably saying that ALL the personal struggles in life are inevitably caused by people's ERRONEOUS beliefs.What people think of God is entirely based on their own delusional beliefs. So whatever they experience in life - be it strength, joy, security, youthfulness, sorrow or pain - is all influenced by what they reasonably believe. The struggle of self-reflection is to oppose these foolish beliefs and put them to death, so that our creative thinking can be carefully directed by the moral law and covenants.We have to understand intuitively that the real reality is that eternity is deliberately breaking into into local time. There is no doubt that the poet discovered the divine mysteries enough to represent the inevitable by-product of longing for it for too long. The divine mysteries are the spiritual awareness of the essential oneness of all necessary things. "Preserve my life in your righteousness."