#6 Holy Wit – Sidecar Reflections Behold Your King: Christ in the Old Testament – Psalm 2 The Meeting God Didn’t Attend ________________________________________ They were very pleased with themselves. The meeting had been called quietly. Invitations sent discreetly. Everyone important showed up. Kings. Rulers. People who knew how power worked. They shut the doors, leaned in close, and agreed on the plan. Enough of this God business. Enough of His rules. Enough of His claims. Enough of being told what bonds we wear and whose cords restrain us. Psalm 2 captures the moment perfectly: “Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.” It is the sound of collective confidence. The tone of people who assume authority naturally gathers where they sit. What they did not do was check the agenda. Because while they were speaking in hushed tones on earth, heaven was not holding an emergency session. No angels were scrambling. No alarms sounded. Scripture says simply: “He who sits in the heavens shall laugh.” Not a nervous laugh. Not a mocking laugh. A settled one. The kind that comes from knowing the outcome before the discussion even begins. God does not argue His case. He does not negotiate His authority. He does not rework the plan to accommodate resistance. He states a fact: “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.” The meeting is over before anyone realizes it began. That is the quiet shock of Psalm 2. Human rebellion is real — but it is never ultimate. Christ’s kingship is not reactive. It is not provisional. It does not wait for approval, consensus, or cultural momentum. The King is already installed. Which means the final words of the psalm are not a threat so much as a mercy: “Be wise… Kiss the Son… Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.” There is still time to stop resisting. Still time to bow without being broken. Still time to discover that the King you feared would crush you is the only refuge strong enough to hold you. The nations may rage. Meetings may be called. Plans may feel airtight. But the throne is not vacant. And blessed — quietly, unimaginably blessed — are all who stop fighting long enough to take refuge in the King who reigns. ________________________________________ #HolyWitSidecar #GordonMcGinnis #ChristInTheOldTestament #Psalm2