Magnify the Lord

Have you ever found yourself ashamed or afraid to tell people about what the Lord is doing in your life? Or on the other hand, have you ever felt like you were talking too much about Him? Well let's get one thing straight...Never be ashamed and keep talking. I have been totally guilty of this...because sometimes one can lead to another. I adore talking about the Lord, my awesome Savior. I honestly could say I would not mind talking about Him, His Word, what He is doing in mine and others lives all day and every day. There have been times though, when I am doing this and I begin to feel insecure or ashamed..or feel the need to apologize to the person I am talking to, because I think maybe they don't want to hear it or are thinking that I need a life.

After the message at church today,I started thinking about all of this...
When we look at God's Word, we can see that we are created to GLORIFY HIM. Our thoughts, words, and actions should always be going straight back to the Lord. We should be taking our eyes off of the distracting situations, people, events in our life and look at them instead with our magnifying glass. God is in whatever thing you may be facing. When we look at it with our own futile immoral eyes, we are not able to see Him in it. He looks small. When we take our magnifying glass to it...all of a sudden God becomes a lot BIGGER. He becomes magnified and glorified in the things that we are looking at.

We have a choice. A magnifying glass has to be picked up. We have to make a conscious decision to see the Lord in each thing we face. We have a choice to allow Him to be glorified and magnified or to not be...

How do we do this?

1. "Bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall continually be in my mouth" (Psalm 34:1.
Are you blessing the Lord at all times? How often is his praise coming from your mouth? God has been faithful and good.

2. "Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth" (Psalm 86:11).
How often are you soaking in God's Word? Do you know His Word well enough, so that it emanates from you? We can only know His ways, when we are reading His truth.

3. "...In order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever "(1 Pt. 4:11).
Do you know Jesus Christ? And not just about Him, but do you really know Him..in an intimate and personal way? We can only glorify God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.


All that to say...I'm going to keep talking about the Lord and let my soul boast in Him. I don't care what anyone says or thinks...I want to magnify Him! Who else is with me?