"Determination"

"Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD." (Psalms 34:11) Probably the saddest thing that we can look upon is our past life of failures; you know, those times when you had blown it so bad, you seriously cannot believe how you could allow yourself to do what you did; but you obviously did what you did, so now that you know what you are capable of, what do you do with that? Anywho, that's what the Lord is speaking into my heart about this verse we have before us; which may or may not have anything to do with the text; but then again, who said I was following any such rule anyway; I simply type what the Lord puts upon my heart, and let chips fall where they may. Regardless; let's say for a moment that there is some validity in what I see happening; it's not as though David could not play out a third person or something like that; that is really not all that crazy of a thought. If so, then who would the three persons actually be? Well, if you actually care about this crazy thought, then the speaker is David, obviously; but the "children", the children are given to instruction and eager to learn what to do or what not to do, which could be anyone actually, even the righteous side of David himself. The "me", again the speaker, has knowledge of what to do and what not to do, which is based upon his past experiences and failures, or the unrighteous side of himself. What it really boils down to, is that of a "Don't Go There" frame of mind; in other words, you know what happens when you do this or that, so don't go there!!! I know it sounds a little crazy, but then again, this Psalm has a little bit of craziness behind it. And if you think that was crazy, how about the word "fear", as in, "I will teach you the fear of the LORD"; because this fear is a noun, and not just any noun, it is a feminine noun which denotes people, things, places or ideas; which, whether you agree with it or not, "the fear of the LORD" is an object that is unchangeable, but at the same time changes, depending upon your perspective. Now tell me that doesn't sound crazy... "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as where baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin." (Romans 6:1-7)