How to Magnify God

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Devotional, Jesus, Joy, Daily Devotional, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, 163859, John Piper, Solid Joys, Desiring God

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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this: feel, think, and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.

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0:00.0	November 27, how to magnify God?
0:05.1	I will praise the name of God with a song.
0:08.8	I will magnify him with thanksgiving, Psalm 69 and 30.
0:14.8	There are two kinds of magnifying, microscope magnifying and telescope magnifying.
0:22.5	The one makes a small thing look bigger than it is.
0:27.4	The other makes a big thing begin to look as big as it really is.
0:34.2	When David says I will magnify God with thanksgiving, he does not mean I will make a small God look bigger than he is.
0:43.1	He means I will make a big God begin to look as big as he really is.
0:49.2	We are not called to be microscopes.
0:52.4	We are called to be telescopes.
0:54.8	Christians are not called to be con men who magnify their product out of all proportion to reality.
1:03.2	When they know the competitor's product is far superior.
1:07.0	There is nothing and nobody superior to God.
1:11.3	And so the calling of those who love God is to make his greatness begin to look as great as it really is.
1:20.3	That's why we exist.
1:22.7	Why we were saved.
1:24.6	As Peter says in 1 Peter 2.9, you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own possession.
1:34.0	That you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1:43.6	The whole duty of the Christian can be summed up in this.
1:48.0	Feel, think and act in a way that will make God look as great as he really is.
1:57.1	Be a telescope for the world of the infinite story wealth of the glory of God.
2:04.5	This is what it means for a Christian to magnify God.
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