to magnify

"O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His Name together", Psalm 34:3  

To magnify - means to make something larger than it is.  When we magnify God, we don’t make Him larger, our understanding of God grows larger.  To magnify the Lord is to make everything else small.  Our tendency is to magnify our problems and shrink our view of God.  This is backwards and upside down thinking. It is just plain wrong.  The Lord is a great God and great King above all gods, Pssalm 95:3  

In Prince Caspian of the Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan says to Lucy, “you will find me bigger.”  It is not that Aslan grows bigger.  It is Lucy’s understanding of Aslan that grows bigger.  Let’s follow the David’s exhortation in Psalm 34 and magnify the Lord and together, let’s exalt His name.