“The Lord Be Magnified!”

 “The Lord Be Magnified!”

 

Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, Let such as love Your Salvation say continually,  “The Lord be magnified!”    Psalm 40:16

 

I love this Psalm because it is a clear picture of David’s PERSEVERING FAITH in his times of TRIAL, and MANY TROUBLES with his enemies.  He cries out to the ONLY ONE who can HELP him, his CREATOR GOD.  David’s plea for DELIVERANCE to the ONE Who can DELIVER him shows us an example of his FAITH and TRUST in GOD and NOT in MAN.

 

NOTICE that David says:  “Let ALL those who SEEK YOU”, if a person is SEEKING GOD, they MUST have SOME TRUST in Him for whatever DESPERATE NEED they have.  They can REJOICE and be GLAD KNOWING that HE IS ABLE to SUSTAIN and DELIVER them from wherever the PERVERTED and CROOKED PATHS of this SINFUL WORLD might take them.  And what their enemies might put in their way, to try to deter them from getting to their ETERNAL HOME.  They can have ASSURANCE KNOWING that they WILL get there with GOD’S HELP.  And like David, if they have a STRONG, PERSEVERING FAITH, they will ARRIVE VICTORIOUS in this EARTHLY JOURNEY.

 

NOT only can they REJOICE and BE GLAD, but because of the LOVE of their SALVATION, which is provided by GOD, they can say, with CERTAINTY and TRUST in Him:  “The LORD be MAGNIFIED.”  In other words, to offer up the HIGHEST PRAISE to their ROCK, REFUGE, and their REDEEMER.  He is the ONLY ONE, who in the END, WILL determine where you will spend your ETERNITY.  

 

If you have given your HEART and LIFE to God, then, like David, you can REJOICE and BE GLAD, because of GOD’S plan of DELIVERANCE, and His plan of SALVATION.  HE WILL DELIVER you!!  He will DELIVER you from an ETERNITY in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE, once you are there.  

 

However, if you have NOT given your HEART and LIFE to God, through the REDEEMING PROCESS of His Son, the LORD JESUS CHRIST, the One who CAME and DIED for YOU, to SAVE you from an ETERNITY in HELL, and to give you an ETERNITY in HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS.   Here is what YOU MUST DO.  You MUST FIRST, ADMIT that you are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, God’s ONLY SON. You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your sins to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  Then with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, be WILLING to TURN AWAY from your sinful life style, and TURN TO GOD.  You MUST ACCEPT His Gift OF SALVATION, and REJOICE and BE GLAD, and CONTINUALLY say:  “The LORD be MAGNIFIED!!”  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!