Magnify

I need light and readers to be able to decipher most of the written word. Light for obvious reason, readers to magnify. This word magnify has come into play several times this past week. To magnify is to enlarge an appearance, or to blow something our of proportion in order to get a better look at it. We generally magnify something that we read in order to get a better view but what about the times we magnify a situation and make a bigger deal of it that it needs to be. Something that matters little to someone else might mean the world to us, so we magnify it accordingly!

We tend to make efforts to magnify situations, problems, weaknesses in others as well as ourselves, and sweat the small stuff when in fact so much of what we get angry about, or fear, or discouraged about either is without vain of truth or merit
or in the end works out according to God's very plan. What if....when we begin to magnify an unworthy situation...we magnified God instead? What if we exercised a turning point each time we felt the initiative to magnify what we prioritize and left it up to magnifying an action or a word or deed that would glorify God instead. I don't know about you but it would be a huge undertaking for me. For you see, as much as I hate to admit it, I deep down kind of like getting into the nitty gritty details. I can rationalize pretty much any situation to put me back on the high seat and accuse or blame others for a deed gone bad or a spoiled walk in the woods of discrepancy.

Just think about it a minute, maybe you don't struggle as I do, but I have found that when I blow a situation out of proportion, it is usually is all about me; me not getting my way, me not considering others and their viewpoints, me losing control of something that I wanted to extend my rights and my opinions over. It would alleviate so much and so many of my drama points if only I would learn to magnify Christ when that urge came upon me to magnify self and self appointed, self manipulated activities.

There is a song that I know many of you are familiar with that I just love. It lands in my head for days after we sing it at church. It is titled: Majesty by Caedmon's Call and it brings back to heart the real one we are to magnify, each day in every way.
Majesty
Worship His majesty
Unto Jesus, be all glory
Honor, and praise

Majesty
Kingdom authority
Flow from His throne
Unto His own
His anthem raise

Majesty
Worship His majesty
Unto Jesus, be all glory
Honor, and praise

Majesty
Kingdom authority
Flow from His throne
Unto His own
His anthem raise

So exalt, lift up on high
The name of Jesus
Magnify, come glorify
Christ Jesus the King

Majesty
Worship His majesty
Jesus who died, now glorified
King of all Kings

So exalt, lift up on high
The name of Jesus
Magnify, come glorify
Christ Jesus the King

Majesty
Worship His majesty
Jesus who died, now glorified
King of all Kings

I use my reading glasses each day. They are a necessity for a clear read, for they magnify that which is before me that my eyes are not strong enough to see. If only I would learn to magnify Christ with the same commitment of dependence. Oh how he would help me to see more clearly His picture, his children, his ways, and his purposes. Magnify....So exalt, lift up on high
The name of Jesus, Magnify, come glorify, Christ Jesus the King. For he, and he alone is the one who deserves to be magnified. For Christ is the majesty....and all other things fall under his authority.

Psalm 96:4
For great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods.
Psalm 145:3
Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.
Jeremiah 32:17
"Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Dear Lord, Oh how I need to be reminded to turn my eyes to you when I find myself magnifying the weaknesses and insecurities and wrongdoings of others. Help me to see others as well as myself through your eyes and boldly look to you and magnify your presence before me and about me and within me. Amen
Praise God wherever you are and whatever situation He has allowed you to be in . . . His glory will shine through!