“Who is even at the right hand of God” (Romans 8:34)

Christ sits “at the right hand of God”, but don’t make the same mistake the Apostles did, thinking Christ would use His influence so they would share in the prosperity of His Kingdom. They did share in His abundant grace, but that isn’t what the world calls prosperity. Every one of them was persecuted and executed for the cause of Christ. They found out the hard way, that only “men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth … suppose that godliness is a means of gain … Now godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content” (1 Timothy 6:5-8). 

 When Paul told the Roman church, Christ sits “at the right hand of God”, it sounds like the beginning of a modern minister’s prosperity message. Nothing could be further from the truth. Paul continues, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: ‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter’. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:33-39). 

 Christ sitting at the right hand of God assures you that if God wants you to have something, it’s yours. It also assures you if God doesn’t want you to have something, you’re not going to get it. Christ at the right hand of God has all power in heaven and Earth. If you submit to Him unconditionally, you can be sure He will lead and guide you to what’s best for you and His Kingdom. Your greatest challenge will be to stay submitted to Him by faith when times get tough. 

 "Jesu's tremendous name Puts all our foes to flight: Jesus, the meek, the angry Lamb, A Lion is in fight. By all hell's host withstood; We all hell's host o'erthrow; And conquering them, through Jesu's blood We still to conquer go."