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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

magnify

Opening Prayer: My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble estate of his servant.

Scripture: Luke 1:39-56

Journal: What is your life magnifying these days?  Who are you making great?  What would it look like to make God great in your life and work and ministry?  How will you magnify him today?

Reflection: Mary got it.  She just got it.  She understood that, as hard as it probably was to remember sometimes, this life was not about her, but about God.  You can see it in her response to the angel.  You get a deep sense of it as you consider the full implications of exactly what the angel was telling her.  And you definitely see it—and hear it—in her prayer.
     “My soul magnifies the Lord.  My soul makes him great, enlarges him, draws all of the attention to him.”  That is what the human soul was created to do.  The sole purpose of our lives is to make God great, to magnify him, to enlarge him, to continually proclaim and reveal his greatness.  Everything else is merely distraction.
     How will you magnify him today?

Prayer

Closing Prayer: Thank you, O God, that during this season we celebrate your coming into the world through Mary.  And now it is our turn to be the means through which you enter the world again and again.  Help us to magnify you.  Amen.

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