Seated at the Right Hand

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 194, Seated at the Right Hand.

"The LORD says to my Lord: 'Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.'" Psalm 110:1.

This verse looks simple on first read, but it holds a mystery that even Jesus' own disciples took years to grasp. Notice: David, the king of Israel, the most powerful man of his nation, speaks of someone he calls "my Lord." But David was king — so who could possibly be greater than him? Jesus Himself used this verse in front of the Pharisees to make exactly this point: the Messiah would not merely be David's descendant, a son in the royal line. He would be David's Lord. Greater than the very king who prophesied Him.

And what does God the Father say to this greater Lord? Sit at my right hand. That is not a decorative detail. In the ancient world, sitting at the right hand of the throne was the position of highest honor, of closest nearness, of greatest authority that existed. It was not a position earned through effort. It was an invitation — extended by the Father Himself, to the Son Himself, recognizing who He had always been.

And then comes the word carrying the weight of our entire wait: until. "Until I make your enemies your footstool." That small word reveals that we are living in the middle of a process. Christ is already seated. Christ already reigns. The victory has already been decreed. But the full completion — the moment when every enemy, every evil, every last shadow of sin is fully subdued — is still unfolding. We live exactly inside that "until." Between the certainty of the victory and the wait for its full display.

And look at the image the psalm chooses to describe that victory: enemies made a footstool. A footstool does not fight back. It does not resist. It simply lies beneath — completely submitted, with no strength left to react. That is how the psalm describes what is coming for everything opposed to Christ. This is not an uncertain battle with an open outcome. It is a victory already decreed by the Father, waiting only for time to run its course.

And here is what changes for you today: if your Lord is already seated, already enthroned, already victorious by decree — then you can face any battle today already knowing the ending before the fight is even over. The anxiety you feel in front of something hard does not have to come from the place of "will I win this?" It can come from the place of "I already know who wins." That does not remove the struggle. But it completely changes the posture you carry into it.

So today, before breakfast, I want you to do something concrete: name out loud one specific battle you are facing right now — it might be fear, a financial situation, a difficult relationship, a recurring temptation. Give it a name. And then say: "this battle already has a victor." And live your entire day from that certainty — not from the uncertainty of the fight, but from the certainty of the throne.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.