Obviously we are not to understand God's “right hand” literally. As Augustine points out, that would mean the Father was on Christ's left! God does not actually have a right hand, or a left for that matter. The children's catechism rightly observes that “God is a Spirit, and has not a body like men”. Jesus' own statement in John 4:24 is that God is a spirit. When the Bible speaks of God's right hand it is speaking anthropomorphically. It is using human terms.
Similarly, when we speak of Christ sitting, we are not speaking of bodily sitting. Jesus certainly has a body but we are not to imagine a literal crown on his head or his sitting on a literal throne. Stephen sees him standing not sitting (Acts 7:56). That detail presents no difficulty. No doubt Jesus stood, as it were, resentful at how they were treating his servant. Concerned for Stephen, he was more than ready to help. In Revelation Jesus stands too. Paul and Peter simply say Christ is “at the right hand of God” (Romans 8:34; 1 Peter 3:22). The idea of sitting, or standing for that matter, is picture language.
From my book What Jesus is doing now, pp 62, 63
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