[Tuesday's Devotional] - Psalm 110: You are a priest forever

Psalm 110: You are a priest forever This Psalm, to me, has a special meaning.  It brought me back from the brink of rejecting God for good, and I constantly go back to it and him when I feel myself wavering. I had been turned down for the priesthood, in a way only the C of E can do.  Seriously, the rejection process was a pretty tough thing to comprehend.  There I was listening to God's voice in my heart, telling me, guiding me, and then an anonymous person said:  "Sorry, I don't feel it is the right thing for you."  Bang.  Three years of effort gone. I'm sure it was not actually like that, but it certainly felt like it at the time.  With an open wound and in screaming "emotional agony", I took refuge in a friend's comfort. He suggested we pray a little, after I had told him all about my woes, and whilst he went to get a bible from another room, the words "Psalm 110" came into my head. Now, from memory, I'd never knowingly read or said 110, I'm sure I must have, but I couldn't remember any of it.  Whilst Christians interpret the Psalm as meaning Jesus will sit at the right hand of God, I, in my pain, focused in on verse 4! "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek" Psalm 110 [NIV] Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying, "Rule in the midst of your enemies!" Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning's womb. The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek." The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath. He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth. He will drink from a brook along the way, and so he will lift his head high.   Whilst my own path to ordination has stalled, I will never forget this moment.  God trusts me and has plans for me, and whilst I can't be a priest in the conventional sense, it does not stop me from being priestly for God! God has a way of reaching out to us when we are most in need. He's amazing like that! Steve Fogo   Twitter Website Copyright © 2017 St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the Daily Devotionals Our mailing address is: St. Matthew & St. Oswald's Church 1a New Street Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7BE United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Want to be added to our mailing list? - sign up here!