Christ's sacrifice has taken care of the sin problem in our lives, and we now enjoy our relationship with God through His view of the whole world. Because the world is subject to the eternal consequences of sin, God sees us as unable to be identified as being under the judgement of sin. We no longer can go as low as the world. The standard of righteousness is so high that we could never obtain it and it is so low that we are safe from judgement. This is all because of what Christ has done for us.This is why God not only forgives our sins, but also takes care of the consequences of sin. The logic of overcoming sin is now reversed. Instead of us overcoming sin by our own effort, God smiles on us in our sorrows because of our weakness to sin. God looks at us through the lenses of blessing, while those who are caught in the depths of sin only view the world through the lenses of the curse. God blesses us by pronouncing us righteous, so that we are righteous. We are only different because of God's pronouncement.Even though we may find ourselves in difficult situations at times, we should not identify ourselves with those deep sorrows. We may experience this trouble, but God is really smiling on us. Because God has done the work for us to enjoy this blessed provision, we now can curse the experience of being guilty. Even though we look worse than the world we no longer are caught in this low pit. We receive a pronouncement that is greater than our best times. Out of our trial comes more blessing. In this we mourn over the plight of the destructive forces that have engulfed the world.