I’m still doing the daily readings with the Bible Society for Lent, and on the whole enjoying it. The other day we read Psalm 110 and this jumped out at me
The LORD says to my lord:
‘Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies
a footstool for your feet.Psalm 110:1-2
When this verse has been preached on, and even in the commentary on Bible Society, it is said that the lower case “lord” must be Jesus with the uppercase LORD being Yahweh, but I’m wondering if it isn’t. I’m wondering if it is that part of ourselves that lords it over our behaviour and decisions.
In doing QEC healing and also watching Awakening With Brian and reading books like The Body Keeps The Score etc etc etc I am wondering if the “lord” in this psalm [and possibly in other places] is our subconscious, which is often led by our childhood traumas, our conditioning, our expectations, and lots of unspoken stuff, for instance Jung’s shadow selves.
We all do things that we don’t like doing or are surprised that we do. We react in ways that we don’t want to. I was really tired last night and was being really needy but in an antagonistic way. I knew I didn’t want to be behaving like that but I was. When I handed it to God I realised I was looking at things through the little child who got looked over and had to take charge.
So I all I had to do was sit at God’s right-hand, that place of honour, and allowed God, who loves me unconditionally, to bring those parts of me that were being my enemy under Their care. Those niggles and issues then became something I could rest my feet on and let go of.
By doing that it stops me then from doing those things we can all be guilty of doing [1] trying to rationally sort out why I was feeling that way, [2] feel guilty about acting off and go into a further sulk, [3] dismiss it all and blame the other person.
So if I put “my lord” into THE LORD’s hands then LORD [as in Creator God] can deal with my enemies – which are more often my own thoughts, fears, deep seated insecurities, and things I don’t even know about but which keep me in that flight, flight, freeze, fawn place – and I can be at peace.
I do wonder if, too often, we over spiritualise the Bible, trying to make lots of things in the Old Testament be by about Jesus, when often they are about the human condition, and how God wants to support us and help us through the hard work of being human. Maybe if we took it like that then we could spend more time being than rushing round doing.
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