Let God Be Magnified

“Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.” – Psalm 34:3

Jesus. It is that name that is above every other name. All of the Old Testament looks forward to Him and all the New Testament looks back on Him. He is the center of all things and I love Him.

This journal that you are reading is going to be an adventure. There is no preset course that we are going to take. We will go as the Lord leads us. To do otherwise would be foolish and unfruitful.

What we will do here is worship Him through thoughts, ideas, conversations, and debate. To grow with Him is to know Him better. He never meant for us to know everything about Him when we were saved. God always has a process that He goes through in everything He does. Creation was a specific process for He could have just brought everything into being at once and skipped the seven days. Why did He do it that way? Because it’s in God’s character to go through a process. There is a purpose behind everything He does. And so it is with us. This journey that He has us on is a process and through it He will reveal Himself to us in deeper ways than before.

And as He reveals Himself to us, it gives us an opportunity to praise Him, to worship Him, to exalt and magnify His name. How’s the old song go? “It’s not about me, it’s all about you, Jesus.” And so it will be here.

However, because this journal comes from me there will be opinions. I will always do my best to back up what I have stated with Scripture if it calls for it. Mostly, however, it will be things that I have read and wish to share with you. When God reveals Himself in a deeper way you want to share it with others so that they will know it, too. As Jesus said:

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden; nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.” – Matthew 5:14,15

I encourage you to post comments to the entries. If something speaks to you praise God for it. If something doesn’t make sense then post a question for us to contemplate and answer. Regardless of what it is please praise God for it and not me – Through Him and by Him and for Him are all things. All glory belongs to Him. All I ask is that we realize that as we go on this journey we all come from different places in our walk with the Lord. Some of us just met Him. Others have known Him for a long time. And there will be some who don’t know Him at all. Let grace rule your hearts in all matters.

…let us exalt His name together.

Later, Eriek