We will magnify, we will magnify, the Lord enthoned in Zion

The title is from a song written in the 1980s, so over 30 years old!

This post is taken from what I heard in the devotional I listened to this morning on Lectio365. The writer began with this quote from Nehemiah 1:

Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, ⁶ let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel.

She goes on to say that she had a mentor who said 'Whatever you magnify gets bigger in your eyes. You can magnify your problem. Or you can magnify the Lord. Which will you choose?'

Today I was feeling weighed down with a couple of issues. Not overwhelming in their own right, but each one felt heavy and they all together felt too much. 

I took this prayer as mine today and prayed through it, thanking God that he is great and awsome, that he keeps his covenant. I asked him to hear the prayer of me, his servant (even though I have not prayed day and night...)

I did feel re-adjusted - that God was bigger, and although the issues are still there, they are not as big as God is. It was super helpful to take this approach and feel my life feel slightly less out of whack.

And I did finish by playing the title song!