Unshackled Moments ~ January 27 ~ Twinkle, Twinkle Litlte Star

Twinkle, twinkle little star...

It's easy sometimes to look up at the night sky and see the beauty of the little lights floating above us. We may even at times see the magnitude of the night sky and be overwhelmed by the glory of what God has created. In times like those, we feel small.

But even as the stars make us feel small, it is hard to see them as gigantic. They are tiny dots. It's hard to visualize that our sun is a small star and that most of the little stars twinkling in the night sky are many times larger than the sun. If we could get close to even our tiny sun it would be easy to understand that next to it, the earth is a speck. And of course, as tiny little creatures running around on the surface of that speck we wouldn't even be noticeable. The sun wouldn't have changed. We wouldn't have made it bigger. We would just finally have a better perspective of the reality that already is.

Even when we magnify a star in a telescope, making it larger from our perspective, we aren't actually making it larger. Even our magnified view can not fathom the reality of the stars brilliance and size. We simply can't see it. Not even with the huge telescopes that take the awesome and beautiful images we see and wonder in awe  at can capture what it would be like to be in that star's presence.

So it is with God. We see evidence of His mighty works and declare our God is a big God, an awesome God. But the truth is that He is beyond our ability to fathom. When the scriptures call on us to magnify the Lord, it's not so that we can make Him bigger. We are not magnifying Him, but rather our perspective of, our view of, our understanding of Him. Like with a telescoped and stars, we get a better idea of His size, beauty and glory with some magnification. When we look at God with the naked eye of our understanding, it's like looking at the stars in the night sky. He seems small, glorious but small. How can He really help? But as our perspective changes, when He is magnified within us, we understand more how Big and Mighty big and mighty really is. He makes those things that seem so big and overwhelming to us smaller than specks in comparison.

We don't need a bigger God. He is more than enough. We need a magnified, bigger and better understanding of who He is that is on our side. If we could come more close to seeing Him life sized nothing in life would cause us fear. Nothing would ever seem close to too much for Him to handle for us. We would never again doubt that we can give it all to Him and do so safely. One day, we will see Him in His presence and there will be no need to magnify anything. We will understand and fall on our knees in worship and wonder. But until then, 

magnify the Lord with me. 

-Psalm 34:3

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