Magnify

 

When the angel Gabriel announced the birth of Jesus to Mary, he mentioned that her cousin, Elizabeth, was in the 6^th month of her miraculous pregnancy carrying John the Baptist.  So Mary hurried up to the hill country to visit her older cousin.  Both ladies were excited for each other with their miraculous conceptions, and even prenatal John got into the excitement and leaped in the womb of Elizabeth when he heard the news of the coming Messiah!  Mary was overjoyed and began to praise the Lord.  Luke 1:46, “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord.”  Hey, God is as big as it gets!  It’s not possible to make God any bigger than He already is!  But Mary was “magnifying” the Lord, not actually making the Lord any bigger.  “Magnify” doesn’t make the object (or person) bigger, it just makes them appear bigger.  If you put a mosquito under a microscope, it doesn’t become bigger, it only looks bigger.  And that’s our job: to make much of God … to magnify the Lord … to make God bigger-than-life to the rest of the world.  Hey, during this Christmas season, let’s magnify the good Lord to a world that needs the hope of Jesus Christ!