The
LORD says to my lord: “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.”
Psalm 110:1 (NIV 2011)
a footstool for your feet.”
Psalm 110:1 (NIV 2011)
Psalm
110, attributed to King David c. 1,000 BC, begins with David “seeing” a
conversation between God and God’s Messiah, who was to be David’s Lord.
Jesus quoted verse 1 himself and the verse is referenced almost twenty
times in the New Testament. “Footstool”
is a metaphor meaning “in charge”.
It comes from the ancient image of a victorious military commander
standing with his foot on the neck of his vanquished foe.
Perhaps David wrote this Psalm toward the end of his life when he had
begun to realize that he was not the anointed one, but there would be such a one
to come.
Ascension,
celebrated in the Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant churches worldwide,
is the day when Jesus ascended to the “right hand” (another metaphor for
position of authority) of God, assuming the position of ruler of the Cosmos
until He returns, renews heaven and earth and hands over the renewed world to
the Father (1 Corinthians 15:20-28).
Once
again, the question for a Christian really is this one;
do you believe that Jesus is reigning over the world and do you live as
if He is? If you do, what does
that look like? How do/would
you explain that to someone else?
“Lord,
I do not understand many things, but since the core of the Good News of the
Gospel is that You are alive, You have defeated evil,
and You are now in charge of all that is, then I choose to trust that.
Better said, I trust You. Amen”
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