It was the first item on the list. A magnifying glass. The kind with the handle. So she could see things up close and more clearly, so she could see the details. It was a simple enough request, and now she will occasionally walk around my house looking at everything through a magnifying glass. Examining, seeing everyday things in a new way, from a new angle and through a different lens.

“..I will MAGNIFY Him with thanksgiving..” the psalmist writes. I will make God bigger as I declare my thankfulness, as I declare all that He HAS done, IS doing and WILL continue to do, He will grow larger. I have a choice today. What am I going to make bigger. What am I going to focus on. What will I be a magnifier of.

Do I examine and analyze my fears, or do I magnify and enlarge His PEACE and FAITHFULNESS?

Do I stare at and study my failures, or do I magnify and behold the VICTORY I have through Christ?

Do I scrutinize and pore over my doubts or do I magnify and consider His STRENGTH and POWER?

My new identity in Christ gives me a new set of eyes, a spiritual set. These eyes give me a supernatural ability to Love in the midst of Pain, to ground myself in faith instead of spin around in confusion, and to anchor with hope in order to weather the storm of despair. Today I am believing that I am a magnifier of God, and while I live this physical life in the flesh, I will set my mind on eternity and will speak of His GREAT majesty and power in my life.

I will magnify my God.