![]() ![]() During the early days of the war, a pastor said to President Lincoln, “Let us have faith, Mr. There is an interesting story from the American Civil War that illustrates this point. Or perhaps more pointedly, we often expect God to conform to our understanding. It is so easy to be mistaken in how we expect God to work, because we base our ideas on what we think rather than on His freedom to do whatever He wills, even when it’s completely the opposite of our expectations. How careful we must be, 3000 years later, to not let our prejudices blind us to God’s work in the earth today. The thought of the Messiah being supernatural had never entered the picture. If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?” (22:42,45). Jesus’ commented on this verse in Matthew: “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?. But we see in this psalm that this Son of David, as Jesus is called, who had been predicted throughout the Old Testament, is also the Lord over David. He would be God’s chosen one, God’s anointed one, but still simply a man, a natural descendant of David. Jewish theologians were looking for someone like a David to appear as a nationalistic, political leader. Since this is a psalm by David and he was a king, it seems at first that he was writing about God speaking to him but in fact he was writing about “The LORD” (God the Father) speaking to “my Lord” (God the Son: Jesus Christ). Psalm 110:1: “The LORD said to my Lord, / ‘Sit at My right hand, / Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.'” January 22nd, 2021 by Pastor Ed in devotional ![]()
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