There is no precedent for the declaration of Psalm 110:1 in the Old Testament. It can’t be a psalm about David because God never said about David that he would sit at his right hand. It must be about someone greater than him. This psalm must have been the subject of great curiosity for a long time. It seems to have been accepted that the psalm was written by David, but this raises even more questions. If David is referring to a king of his dynasty, how can he call him “my Lord”. This is the question that Jesus asked of the pharisees, the Bible experts of his day, and they could not answer him (Matthew 22:41-46). Why? Because they only had a two-dimensional notion of the Messiah whom they were expecting. They read Psalm 110 as referring to a mere son of David who would win the kinds of military victories that David won. Jesus’ point is that, while the Messiah would be a son of David, he would be much more than that. He cited Psalm 110 as an indication of this. For David refers to the Messiah as his “Lord”. Jesus was diagnosing the pharisees’ blindness to his own kingship. They did not recognise Jesus as their Messiah because their expectations were too low. Jesus is at work right before us too, but we often miss him because we set our expectations too low. Jesus is more than you think, and he can do more in your life than you think. The answer to your problem is allowing Jesus to be Lord over your life and letting him win a greater victory than you have in view.
Give your life and your circumstances to Jesus to do with as he wills.
Read Psalm 110, Matthew 22:41-46 & Hebrews 1:13
