Your hand will capture all Your enemies. Your right hand will seize those who hate You. (vs8)
The Hebrew word for hand in this psalm is "yad." It can mean power and strength, but often, when used of God, it means judgment. I like the picture here of our enemies - especially those in the spiritual realm that fight against our victory in Christ - running around with their fiery darts chasing us when a big hand comes out of nowhere. These haters of our lives whose purpose is to destroy us are jabbing at our hearts and wreaking havoc on the events of our day thinking they are all that. We cry out. We need help because the enemy has become too strong for us. Then God stands up. Has had enough. Reaches down with His enormous hand and scoops them all up like so many grains of sand. All done. What's next?
There is much said of God's strong right hand in the Bible. Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. (Exodus 15 from the song of Moses.) God Almighty holds the book with the seven seals of the end times in His right hand. His right hand saves us in battle and judges between right and wrong. It is full of righteousness and with it He holds our own feeble hands. It was the right hand of the Lord that spread out the heavens and by it He swears an oath to bring retribution with His mighty arm. The cup of the final destruction of the earth is held in God's right hand. Our names are written on it and the scars for the penalty of our sins recorded on each of His hands for all eternity. It is at the right hand of God that Jesus sits even now as He pleads for us as our great High Priest.
The joke at Christ's crucifixion was to put a reed in His right hand to mock Him for proclaiming to be the King of the Jews. Born in a manger, placed in a feeding trough...this sacrificial perfect lamb was already a king. In the first two years of His life He was honored as such with the gifts from foreign diplomats who understood the import of the star heralding His birth. But He was despised, rejected of men and executed by the very people He came to save. The One Whose right hand had flung the stars bled and died with criminals. That was Friday. Demons dancing. Satan spewing. All hell breaking loose. Short-sighted and sadistic, the enemy dancing with glee that the strong right hand of God had been destroyed.
But Sunday...the empty tomb. The right hand of God took the hand of His Son and raised Him from the dead! A new body. A new day. For that hand secured forever our place in eternity. With one fell swoop it caught up the dancing demons and flung them far and wide. His heal had crushed the head of the foul serpent who had deceived us from the beginning. The "yad" of God has judged us righteous who love His Son.
The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous, singing: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly! The right hand of the Lord exalts! The right hand of the Lord does valiantly!"
I shall not die, but live, and recount the deeds of the Lord!!!
The Hebrew word for hand in this psalm is "yad." It can mean power and strength, but often, when used of God, it means judgment. I like the picture here of our enemies - especially those in the spiritual realm that fight against our victory in Christ - running around with their fiery darts chasing us when a big hand comes out of nowhere. These haters of our lives whose purpose is to destroy us are jabbing at our hearts and wreaking havoc on the events of our day thinking they are all that. We cry out. We need help because the enemy has become too strong for us. Then God stands up. Has had enough. Reaches down with His enormous hand and scoops them all up like so many grains of sand. All done. What's next?
There is much said of God's strong right hand in the Bible. Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power. Your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy. (Exodus 15 from the song of Moses.) God Almighty holds the book with the seven seals of the end times in His right hand. His right hand saves us in battle and judges between right and wrong. It is full of righteousness and with it He holds our own feeble hands. It was the right hand of the Lord that spread out the heavens and by it He swears an oath to bring retribution with His mighty arm. The cup of the final destruction of the earth is held in God's right hand. Our names are written on it and the scars for the penalty of our sins recorded on each of His hands for all eternity. It is at the right hand of God that Jesus sits even now as He pleads for us as our great High Priest.
The joke at Christ's crucifixion was to put a reed in His right hand to mock Him for proclaiming to be the King of the Jews. Born in a manger, placed in a feeding trough...this sacrificial perfect lamb was already a king. In the first two years of His life He was honored as such with the gifts from foreign diplomats who understood the import of the star heralding His birth. But He was despised, rejected of men and executed by the very people He came to save. The One Whose right hand had flung the stars bled and died with criminals. That was Friday. Demons dancing. Satan spewing. All hell breaking loose. Short-sighted and sadistic, the enemy dancing with glee that the strong right hand of God had been destroyed.
But Sunday...the empty tomb. The right hand of God took the hand of His Son and raised Him from the dead! A new body. A new day. For that hand secured forever our place in eternity. With one fell swoop it caught up the dancing demons and flung them far and wide. His heal had crushed the head of the foul serpent who had deceived us from the beginning. The "yad" of God has judged us righteous who love His Son.
The Lord is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous, singing: "The right hand of the Lord does valiantly! The right hand of the Lord exalts! The right hand of the Lord does valiantly!"
I shall not die, but live, and recount the deeds of the Lord!!!
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