“Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee, and let such as love thy salvation say continually, let the Lord be magnified.”
When I read this verse this morning, it caught my imagination. It says: “Let the Lord be magnified (exalted).” How can we magnify, or exalt, the Lord? The verse suggested two ways that we can magnify and exalt the Lord. First, David wrote: “Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee.” If we want to exalt and magnify the Lord, we should first of all seek Him. We should have the confidence and faith in Him that we know that we need to seek His presence and fellowship with us on a daily basis. This also suggests that we can let the world see our joy and gladness in Him. Second, passing into the New Testament, because of our gratefulness for the Salvation that Jesus procured for us on the cross, we can magnify Him by praising Him, and by telling others about this great salvation. These are two great ways that we can magnify and exalt the Lord. Another thought that I had beyond the text was that we can magnify the Lord by how we live. The world is always watching us and they see when we fail to live for the Lord as we should. Believe me; the world is well aware when our lives are not magnifying the Lord. None of us will do this perfectly, of course, but we can certainly do better than we are doing. I know that I should, and I would also suggest to you that you should. We need to do better as individual Christians in our daily lives. We also need to do better corporately through our churches. Again, the world has its eyes on our churches and we need to set a better example of cooperation and a sense of unity in the Lord. Another thought was that we can magnify the Lord by how we love. (I know that this is a very familiar theme in CouchPotatoRedux articles.) Jesus pointed out the need for love in John 13:34-35: “A new commandment give unto you, That you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.” Indeed, Jesus put a high premium on the witness of our love for each other to the world. We need to ask ourselves if we love each other as we should. We also need to ask ourselves if we are showing the love of Jesus to the world in our daily lives. Does the waitress, or waiter, who serves your food sense that you love them? Does your attitude show the love of Jesus to the cashier at the store where you shop. These are not inconsequential questions. Hey, it’s not “rocket science.” Just love people. I’m sure that there are many more ways to magnify the Lord than I have written about here, but the four ideas that I gave will be a good start. Let’s magnify and exalt the Lord. Bro. Joe
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