What are we Magnifying?
Is it just me, or are you also noticing that the fine print on bottles and cosmetics has become smaller? It’s common for me to pull out my trusty magnifying glass to make those words larger. I bought this magnifying glass with a light on it – one for me; one for Carl. It has been a constant go-to for enlarging those teeny tiny words on many things.
And, what about the choices we make daily to MAGNIFY the problems and circumstances, or we MAGNIFY our gratitude and the bigness of our God with whom nothing is impossible. What we MAGNIFY becomes more. We can choose to magnify that one hurtful comment someone made to us, or we can magnify thousands of encouraging and loving comments.
We can be MAGNIFYING agents. We can MAGNIFY someone’s self-confidence by complimenting them. We can MAGNIFY our spouse by letting them know how much we appreciate them for what they did, or we can MAGNIFY what they didn’t do. We can make them stronger or weaker. We can MAGNIFY our children’s good qualities or MAGNIFY what they’re lacking in. Remember — what we MAGNIFY gets larger. Do we magnify what they’re not or magnify what they’ve got!
Remember Mary, the mother of our Lord, and how she MAGNIFIED her Lord? She could have immersed herself in concern and worry, but instead she hastened to her cousin Elizabeth who was also pregnant at a very mature age? Both women were carrying “miracles”.
After Elizabeth proclaimed to her: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!”, Mary’s immediate unbridled praise was: “My soul MAGNIFIES the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior”. (Luke 1:47)
Mary could have MAGNIFIED her circumstances and her troubles, but instead, she MAGNIFIED Him who should be magnified during OUR best AND toughest times.
My life (and yours too, I suspect) is a beautiful hodge-podge of triumphs and trials, dreams and disappointments, laughter and tears. With all the ups and downs we encounter, what if we took the “Mary” approach to it all? Her approach was to MAGNIFY God and His character and His love and His plans for her future.
Perhaps her perspective should be our perspective. Magnifying God will surely help us keep a healthy, holy perspective no matter what we’re going through. Maybe we could use a larger print Bible these days to make reading easier, AND we could sure MAGNIFY the words God speaks to us more.
If we start MAGNIFYING all that is good, all the blessings, and all that He is, situations and circumstances might just shrink in size and eventually be the NOTHING that is impossible with God! Remember — what is magnified just gets larger. Let’s start here: “Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. ” Psalm 34:3
Lord, be MAGNIFIED in my life. I don’t want to miss a thing!!!