Sometimes I take on too much. Maybe I get excited about what I am doing. Maybe I get worried that I am working on the wrong thing so I get working on many things. Maybe I am trying to prove that I can do something. I don't know.
But I do know this... that too often the distractions I create or rather the distractions I choose, even if they are good things to do... even if they are God things... cost me more than I care to admit.
Why? Because for me it demonstrates a lack of trust (moving forward with confidence and security in the ability of...) in the Lord. It moves the glory of the Lord and on to me. It moves it off the One who can do all things to the one who is trying to do something.
And so what is the antedote for this particular dose of pride...
"O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together." Psalm 34:3
How many times I have read this verse... How many times I missed the point!
O magnify...
We are called to be "lights"...
"Lights" in the world of windows and doors refers to "windows."
We are called to be glass... transparent.
But what kind of glass? Magnifying glass.
In this verse we are called to magnify... to intensely focus the power of light.
We are called to focus. To receive the Light by turning our faces toward Him and by letting Him shine through on one thing until it begins to burns.
When we wonder how many things we should be working on the answer is always the same...
One. Whatever it is we are doing... do it with all of the of the intensity and focus of a magnifying glass.
And once the fire is going... then move over to the next thing and focus again.
Do it in a way that makes it easy to say, "It's Him... not me."
Get focused... Magnify.
SDG
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