What has happened is that we have been set free from the things that were holding us back before. We are no longer under the control of those things by being united with Christ in His death and resurrection. Our new identity with Christ means that we are no longer subject to the old ways of doing things. Even though we are still corrupted, could now be known as "Idol worshipers" the moral law no longer has any power over us. The apostle never addresses us as "proud" but as saints. The problems that we face as a result of our depraved nature are no longer a reason to manipulate the law correctly to defeat what has already been rendered powerless.What we once considered to be shameful curses are no longer violent enough for us to be identified with the wicked. The Psalmist is thoughtfully repeating the first commandment with the divine punishment against those who worship heathen gods. The curse remains an instrument of divine wrath to execute the opposition. We are not under the bondage of law as a rule. We have been made free to choose what is most pleasing. An unbeliever is marked as an idol worshiper in the pleasure he enjoys from idols applies to how we receive pleasure from that same thing. Hence, our hatred is not separated from our bodily desires. We are not disembodied angels who merely represent God's standard of discriminatory law. Our bodily desires and the spiritual are inseparably united. We have gone down the wrong path in attributing idol worship to physical attraction to a thing. We sin when we lower our identity to the shame that Christ liberated us from. 31 7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.8 You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place."Therefore, a sincere desire is not evil. The difference between the old disposition of bondage and the new of freedom or spacious place is that the unbeliever cynically manipulates these suspicious things, preventing us from considerable success as God has resolutely opposed idol worship and cursed it. Christian life is dead to that thing most opposed and hated, not to intentionally avoid it. The specific circumstances of cruel bondage in the unbeliever are a threat to the believer.The language of the covenant is never abusive or threatening. Pronouncing curses kills the guilt virus. Doing so typically prevents the convinced believer from being merely captured by the violent and his heathen idol. Heathen hate endures physical violence. It overcomes the cruel bondage and graciously allows us to genuinely enjoy those necessary things for divine glory.