Let Him Sit in Your Chair

The Lord is…  A Series from the Psalms

Psalm 93

(Use the link below to read the verses.)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2093&version=NIV;TPT

 

The throne… this is a picture of my living room chair. It’s the chair that I always sit in when watching TV; when friends or family come over; when opening Christmas presents. It’s really not a throne, and of course, I’m not a king; but you get the idea. However, I’m pretty sure that every house has a throne; king or not.

 

David was intimately familiar with thrones and kings. He was God’s anointed king of Israel. The people of Israel wanted a person to be king instead of God so that they could fit in with all the other nations around them.

 

In Psalm 93, David wrote the following.

¹ Look! Yahweh now reigns as King!
He has covered himself with majesty and strength,
wearing them as his splendor garments.
Regal power surrounds him as he sits securely on his throne.
He’s in charge of it all, the entire world,
and he knows what he’s doing!    TPT

 

God is King and He sits on His throne. During David’s reign, the Temple was where the presence of God could be found. But when Jesus came, the spiritual order of things was turned upside down. Paul wrote to the Corinthians about this change.

¹⁶ Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?   NIV

If you as a believer and follower of Christ are God’s temple, then it follows that He is sitting on the throne of your temple; the throne of your life. But the truth of the human condition is that we desire to sit on our own throne more than giving it up to another. After all, like my living room chair, it is MY chair.

 

Who is this God that would desire, ask and even demand to sit on our throne? He is immovable, undefeatable, unstoppable, unending, unchanging, unshakable; He is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the Savior of sinners; He is relentless, never giving up, never saying no, never doubting; He is the King… So let Him sit in your chair.

 

² Lord, you have reigned as King from the very beginning of time.
Eternity is your home.       TPT