Magnify The Lord

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; and let those who love Your salvation say continually, let God be magnified!"  Psalm 70:4

We all know that magnified means to enlarge or to increase.  When you put something under a magnifying glass it looks bigger, my tired eyes are grateful for my reading glasses as they enlarge or magnify the small print for me.  The psalmist is calling us to "let God be magnified".  Now, God is God and He remains constant, He will never get bigger or more powerful.  To magnify the Lord does not mean we can change God or make Him greater.  What the psalmist is calling us to do is to magnify the truth of who God is, and to increase our perception of the reality of His omnipotence.  God truly is big enough to handle our problems, but our tendency is to magnify our problems and not Him.  Our difficult circumstances become our focus, and we mull things over and over in our minds, we work out different scenarios and plots, and in our imaginations the problem grows, and the molehill becomes a mountain.  So many of us are masters at allowing the problem to become so magnified that not even God can handle it.  The matter for us is to magnify the Lord, and to let God be God.  As we change our focus, the problem will shrink back down to size.  Remember, God is not stressing, He's not afraid or confused and wondering what to do.  As you turn from magnifying the problem and begin to magnify the Lord, His peace will begin to rule and guard your heart.