The Joy of Magnification

Felt a little down today.  That rarely happens anymore (THANK YOU GOD!).  When it does, it’s exciting to know I can go to God and He’ll encourage me in some fresh way.  As I magnify God’s goodness, the negative minimizes.

It’s like clicking the minimize button on my computer.  Though a negative circumstance may remain, it no longer retains its influence by filling my view.  It has been replaced by a screen filled with God’s glory.

I thought of David and read 1 Samuel 17.  David knew to magnify God.  When Goliath was causing fear among the Israelites, David took courage in the fact that he had already overcome the lion and the bear in God’s covenant strength.  David mentioned Goliath’s lack of circumcision because Goliath had no covenant with God, but David did!  Goliath’s presence seemed a hard thing to the other Israelites.  This giant would have defined their lives as Philistine servants had he overcome them.  However, David remembered his history with God of overcoming hard things.  It gave him the confidence to step up with a sling and a rock.

I no longer let the hard things of life define me.  Before a history of overcoming was established, if I could run away from hard things, I would.  I suppose David was scared the first time a lion came along.  Maybe he also wanted to run, but his only choice was to fight.  I’ve learned to see hard things differently.  Rather than causing me to shrink in despair, something on the inside of me rises up and anticipates seeing how the hard thing will propel me forward.  I become stronger and my confidence expands upon each success in God.   He is always larger than any circumstance.

Magnify the Lord!

I love this life!