Sit at My Right Hand

When you need to remember — that You're still my Shepherd.

You can carry the daily weight of feeling like you are responsible for protecting your own life — image, opportunities, future — and exhaust yourself trying to manage outcomes only God can manage. Underneath the hustle is a quiet question: when do I get to sit down? You do not need to overthrow anyone yourself. You need to remember that there is already One seated at the right hand of the Father, and His enemies are being made into His footstool while you keep trying to fight your own battles in real time.

This short passage is a coronation declaration. "The Lord said to my Lord, 'Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies Your footstool.'" That is the throne being claimed. The seated King is already at rest in His authority while the enemies are still being subdued. Then comes the picture of what His rule looks like: "The Lord shall send the rod of Your strength out of Zion; rule in the midst of Your enemies. Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning; You have the dew of Your youth." His people are willing. The day of His power dawns fresh, like dew, like youth. Then the second declaration: "The Lord has sworn and will not relent: 'You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.'" King and priest in the same person. The throne and the altar collapsed into one. The close is about His coming judgment: "The Lord at Your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of His wrath. He shall judge among the nations... He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore He shall lift up His head." Even when He acts in judgment, He stops to drink from the brook — fully sovereign, fully unhurried. Making His enemies into His footstool is His Father's work. Your job is to be willing on the day of His power.

• Right now, sit down somewhere — physically — and say out loud: "He sits at the right hand. I do not have to fight this in His place." • Write this down: "What battle have I been trying to win that the seated King is already engaged in?" • Repeat this line when you feel like you have to overthrow something yourself: "Until I make Your enemies Your footstool."

Stop. Breathe. Let the King already seated, drinking from the brook, be why you can stop bracing. Then tell Him exactly where you need to be willing on the day of His power — out loud if you can.

God, You are already seated at the right hand, and Your enemies are being made Your footstool while I keep trying to fight my own battles. Forgive me for living like the throne was vacant when You have been ruling all along. You are King and Priest — the throne and the altar in the same Person — and I belong to both. Make me willing on the day of Your power, in the beauties of holiness, fresh as the morning dew. Strike through what needs to be struck, and let me trust You — the One who pauses at the brook because You are not in a hurry. You're still my Shepherd.

The King is already seated — your job is willingness, not overthrow.