The Timid Lion

Christian, don't be like the timid lion from this once popular movie. It's just wrong. And unnatural too. So wrong, it was considered as fantasy in a bygone era.

Greater is he that is in YOU than any other in this world. No other passage from the Old Testament is quoted more by New Testament authors than Psalm 110:1. Its frequent citation should cause us to pay attention:

The Lord says to my lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.” 

In David’s day it was common for a king to symbolize his conquest of another kingdom by using the defeated ruler’s neck as a footstool. In this Psalm, we have a prophesy that is proclaiming that Jesus the Messiah would rule at the “right hand” of God. This is a metaphor that symbolizes power—until he subjugates his enemies by putting his foot on their necks.

And from the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians 15, a similar message of hope:

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

Jesus Christ - the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.