Verses for the Week
O magnify the LORD with me and let us exalt His name together. I sought the LORD and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears. Psalms 34:3, 4
Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified! Psalms 40:16
Thought for the Week
Have you ever taken a magnifying glass and looked with your children at a piece of Gods creation? Amazing the little details we never notice until they are magnified.
What about those older boys who love to let the sun shine through their magnifying glass and burn up some little dead thing? We learn the power of the sun through this act of magnification.
The Psalm writer tells us to magnify the LORD. What does that mean? In my life, that means to make Him BIG; to allow everything else to become miniscule while allowing Him to become huge. We get a whole new perspective on Who He is when we look for those normally unnoticed attributes of the LORD and when we choose to hold that magnifying glass up to Him and try to really study what He is like.
We, too, can learn the power of the SON when we magnify Him. The verses above say that as we seek Him (as under a magnifying glass), He delivers us from (or burns up) all our fears. Why are our fears relieved? Because we know Him, we know He hears us, and we are glad and rejoice in His salvation!
Reminds me of the verse in the hymn, Amazing Grace: 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believed!
O, magnify the LORD with me! ~dlw
Deborah Wuehler is Devotional Editor for The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Visit her blog at www.homeschoolblogger.com/devdoordeborah. Sign up for her free monthly e-Newsletter at www.TheHomeschoolMagazine.com
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