Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalm 110 verse 1:
The Lord says to my lord,
“Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies your footstool.”
This is a Psalm of David. And that is something Jesus makes something of when he quotes this Psalm when confronted by the powers that be in Jerusalem -- including the one who then sat on the throne of David.
It is a Psalm of David, in which David says the LORD speaks to David's lord. Jesus makes something of this to say that even King David himself recognized there is one greater than whoever it is who is seated on the throne. It is to this greater one that true power belong: the throne, the scepter, the support of the people. And so later in verse 5 it is said:
"The LORD is at your right hand,
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath."
The king is one power; but the King of kings is another. The one who sits in the Oval Office now rules for a while; but the one who sits on the throne of heaven shall rule for eternity.
And so we might say it is fitting that King George II rose in honor of the "King of kings" and "Lord of lords" when Handel's Messiah premiered in London and the great Hallelujah Chorus sang:
And He shall reign forever and forever . . .
NOTE: We are reading the Bible through this year. I'm offering a little commentary along the way. Tomorrow's Lesson will come from 1 Chronicles chapters 23-25.
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