Don Moen recorded a poignant song with lyrics that pierce our heart. The song is titled, “Be Magnified,” and it not only convicts us, but also instructs us on how to magnify the Lord in our life. There is nothing too hard for our God (Jeremiah 32:17), and we lift Him higher with each victory that we experience.
The devil spends his time belittling the power of Christ, and so many believe this deception that they condemn themselves by rejecting His salvation (John 3:18, 28). Many believe Satan’s lies that Jesus was a prophet and a good man in His time, but that He is rather irrelevant in our lives today.
Nothing is further from the truth in the lives of authentic Born Again Believers. Daily we experience the power and majesty of our Lord and Savior, because of our personal union with Him. He continually heals our body and soul, and He gives us wisdom and strength to overcome every negative experience in our life.
God provides us with His faith in order to completely trust Him with control over our circumstances. We no longer rely on worldly wisdom, humanistic philosophies, or lies that we believed in our past (Ephesians 2:2; James 4:4). We responded to His grace when He called us as adopted children in His family.
God proves His faithfulness to us to the degree that we place our faith in Him – the more we trust in His goodness and rely on His provision, the deeper our intimacy with Him grows. We see His provision in ways that astound us, and by means that we never expected.
Our Father even answers our prayers before we get them from our heart to our lips. We spend less time complaining and more time praising Him for who He is and for all that He continually does for us. God calls us to remain in peace and unspotted by the vile behavior of the world around us.
This helps us to stop making Him too small in our eyes, and grows our reliance on Him from everything to opening a lid on a jar, to providing us with the perfect pet, to enabling us to serve Him in ministries that He calls on us to perform for His glory. We bask in the light of His fellowship within us each moment of every day.
The traditional, moral, shame-based religion, and the antiquated forms of worship that we used to employ are no longer relevant to our modern era. The intimacy available to us through our benevolent Father is lost in the face of tyrannical, immoral or wimpy adult men who fill this role as fathers in society today.
True, pure, and undefiled religion is that which seeks the betterment of the world around us, meeting physical and spiritual needs in people willing to trust God with their life. God calls us to visit and to care for the widow and fatherless as we disciple them through our example in Biblical Truth (James 1:27; 2 Peter 3:14).
Prayer:
Father God, thank You for forgiving us for making You too small in our eyes. You actually fill our soul to the fullest with gratitude for all of the goodness of Your love and provision for our life. Our vision of You evolves from a remote God on a throne in Heaven to a personal friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24), to the faithful Supplier of every single one of our needs (Philippians 4:29), and to our Creator, Savior and King.
We look forward to spending eternity in Your service, in constant fellowship with You, and in growing Your Kingdom on the earth.
Remind us to wait on You; never to do anything without Your direction and peace filling our spirit – regardless of the human aspects of the circumstances; and to do everything that Your Spirit calls us to accomplish by Your power within us and in Your name.
Thought for the Day:
Although the magnitude of modern technological, and educational and mental aspects of knowledge has increased by leaps and bounds over these last few years, our concept of the majesty, truth, and power of God has decreased due to satanic lies, poor examples in church members, and the lack of teaching and focus in our churches, which have all contributed to this modern conundrum; sadly, this leaves us empty, when God actually wants to fill us with all of Himself.
- Ephesians 3:16-19, Amplified Bible
