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Monday,
May
17,
2021
A well-tended garden near Quarryville, PA.
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"Christ
Be Magnified In Me"
Message
summary: Above all let us seek that
Christ Be Magnified!
Listen to this message on your audio player.Message summary:
"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:3). "This became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified" (Acts 19:17).
A
foundational goal in life and ongoing prayer for the
believer is that Christ be magnified in our
lives.
Yesterday we sang "Christ Be Magnified" in our worship
service that repeats this very theme from the first
stanza to the last and throughout the chorus:
Were
creation suddenly articulate
With a thousand tongues to lift one cry
Then from north to south and east to west
We'd hear 'Christ be magnified!'
Were the whole earth echoing His eminence
His name would burst from sea and sky
From rivers to the mountain tops
We'd hear 'Christ be magnified!'
With a thousand tongues to lift one cry
Then from north to south and east to west
We'd hear 'Christ be magnified!'
Were the whole earth echoing His eminence
His name would burst from sea and sky
From rivers to the mountain tops
We'd hear 'Christ be magnified!'
Today
so much is being magnified; athletes, celebrities,
entertainers, politicians, even preachers and
Christian musicians and the list goes on and on. We
must examine our hearts to see what is being magnified
in our own lives or who we are magnifying. Above all
let us live in such a way that our attitudes and
actions cry out, Christ Be Magnified!
When we use the word "magnify"
we may tend to think of enlarging something as a
magnifying glass does. Dentists and surgeons use
special magnifying glasses to enlarge the view of
what they are working on. They are artificially
making something that is small they're viewing appear larger; in the case
of my dentist it's my teeth. That is not the
sense of how we magnify the Lord! We are not
making God bigger when we magnify Him!
Psalm
34:3 is a timeless call that we must still heed, some
3,000 years after it was originally written, "O
magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name
together". This is one of the first Scripture
choruses I recall singing in the seventies when I
became a Christian. We sang it in the little church my
family attended in Independence MO. Nearly every
Sunday my faithful pastor, Brother Howard, opened the
service with this rousing chorus where people sang it
by memory and intensified the rhythm with their
hand-clapping. It helped to focus our hearts on the
reason we gathered together in the first place. The
lyrics were simple, easily memorized, and
"contemporary" at the time:
"O magnify the Lord with me,
blessed
Lamb of Calvary,
for
His grace so rich and free,
magnify
the Lord with me...."
"Christ
Be Magnified" was introduced in recent years and
delves deeper into theological wording:
When
every creature finds its inmost melody
And every human heart its native cry
O then in one enraptured hymn of praise
We'll sing 'Christ be magnified!
O be lifted high, Jesus
And every human heart its native cry
O then in one enraptured hymn of praise
We'll sing 'Christ be magnified!
O be lifted high, Jesus
"Magnify"
in Scripture has the sense of "praise", "extol",
"laud". This is expressed in our second passage from
Acts 19, "and the name of the
Lord Jesus was being magnified".
Luke chooses a word that is used only once in the New
Testament, emegalyneto based on a word megaluno
which comes from the Greek word "megas" -
meaning "great" which means "to make or declare
great".
Of
course we don't make God great, but we proclaim that
He is great! Most commonly in the NT megaluno means to
magnify or praise, to cause something or someone in
this case to be held in great esteem. The same word is
used in Mary's song in Luke 1 often called the
MAGNIFICAT where she says "My soul doth magnify
the Lord".
Today,
this week, the remainder of our life on this earth and
into eternity let us declare:
Oh!
Christ be magnified
Let His praise arise
Christ be magnified in me
Oh! Christ be magnified
From the altar of my life
Christ be magnified in me
Let His praise arise
Christ be magnified in me
Oh! Christ be magnified
From the altar of my life
Christ be magnified in me
"From
one man He made all the people of the world. Now
they live all over the earth. He decided exactly
when they should live. And He decided exactly where
they should live" Acts 17:26 (NIRV). So may this
be true wherever we live and whatever we are going
through; from the rising of the sun till the
going down of the same, the Name of the Lord is to
be praised!
Be
encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer: Father,
like John the Baptist we also declare, Jesus
must increase, I must decrease, for when I
decrease Christ is magnified in and through
me. I magnify Him above everything else as
Creator of the universe and as Creator of my
life. Like the Psalmist, I will praise Your
name with a song and I will magnify You,
Father, with thanksgiving, for You are worthy
of all praise, glory and honor. Amen.
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer: Father,
like John the Baptist we also declare, Jesus
must increase, I must decrease, for when I
decrease Christ is magnified in and through
me. I magnify Him above everything else as
Creator of the universe and as Creator of my
life. Like the Psalmist, I will praise Your
name with a song and I will magnify You,
Father, with thanksgiving, for You are worthy
of all praise, glory and honor. Amen.Today's
Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"Christ
Be Magnified" Video
Essential Worship
I
won't bow to idols, I'll stand
strong and worship You
And if it puts me in the fire, I'll rejoice 'cause You're there too
I won't be formed by feelings, I hold fast to what is true
If the cross brings transformation then I'll be crucified with You
'Cause death is just the doorway into resurrection life
And if I join You in Your suffering then I'll join You when You rise
And when You return in glory with all the angels and the saints
My heart will still be singing and my song will be the same
And if it puts me in the fire, I'll rejoice 'cause You're there too
I won't be formed by feelings, I hold fast to what is true
If the cross brings transformation then I'll be crucified with You
'Cause death is just the doorway into resurrection life
And if I join You in Your suffering then I'll join You when You rise
And when You return in glory with all the angels and the saints
My heart will still be singing and my song will be the same
A
bike planter at the Hillside Acres Nursery. This
nursery, located on a
rural road east of Quarryville, PA, has become one
of Brooksyne's
favorite nurseries.
A car
planter at the Hillside Acres Nursery. Perhaps
this is the newest flower delivery vehicle!
Finally today:
Is
this an Amish hybrid buggy?
Actually, he uses gas to run lawn equipment and generators and perhaps for fear of a gas shortage was filling up.
Actually, he uses gas to run lawn equipment and generators and perhaps for fear of a gas shortage was filling up.
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