Four weeks ago, I heard a sermon on Psalms 34. The Pastor said this is the "richest chapter" in the Bible. When he said it is like chocolate and fried chicken I really started to listen! I read it again today. Especially verse 3 because that is what he focused on.
"O Magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together."
Before, when I have read this verse, the part that stood out to me was the word "exalt". But the pastor that day focused in on the world "magnify". To magnify means: to enlarge, to make bigger, to make something clearer. (LIKE MY BIFOCALS!) And then he asked this question: "Does anyone understand the things of God better because of you? Does your life make the things of God clearer to those who do not know Him? " OUCH!
Then he really hit me! He said "You can't magnify God without contentment." I Tim 6:6 says "godliness with contentment is great gain". And contentment is? "An inner satisfaction with the situation that God has ordained for you."
When I am at home during the week with my babies, I am content and I find it easy to talk to them about God. But now I am off to work at hospice for the next two days. I love my job but sometimes I find it more difficult to magnify God there; but I don't know of a better place to do it. My prayer today is that I will be able to magnify God to someone today.
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