Psalm 110
First off, if you want to know more about Melchizedek you should check out Hebrews 7 and Genesis 14:17-21. What is important to know is that he is Son of Godish, what that means is that it is possible that Melchizedek is Jesus. What is interesting is that the writer of Hebrew says that Melchizedek resembles Jesus and that Jesus resembles Melchizedek, the author does this in order to connect Jesus to what the Jews already know. Jesus is not someone new on the street but rather someone that has been intrinsically connected to the story all this time. It's the same thing that the author of the Gospel of John does in the opening chapter of that book, connecting Jesus to the very fabric of the universe, letting us know that Jesus is not an addition but rather was always there, just behind the corner of our known reality.
I point all of that out because in this Psalm David is saying that he has a lord that is above him, this is to whom The Lord is speaking. And this lord of David is being called a "priest in the order of Melchizedek" which leads some to believe that David is talking about Jesus without naming him, because while the name has importance, it is who Jesus is, not what we call him that really matters. It is the space we give him in our lives that is of highest importance, because whether we know Jesus or not, whether we believe in Jesus or not, whether we follow Jesus or not, that is what really matters. Do we mean the word Lord, or is it merely lip service? Do we allow Jesus to mold us and remake us, becoming that new creation that Paul speaks of or do we put the bumper sticker on and tell people what they should be doing? At base the question is, who is Jesus to you?
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