Want to guess what this is?
Cholera bacteria. Too small for the eye to see. And when you do see it through a microscope, you go, Yuck. At least I did.
So I’ve been thinking of what it means to “magnify.” Both of
these images were magnified. The first one was magnified by a powerful
microscope because bacteria are too small to be seen
otherwise.
The second image needed to be magnified by a telescope because the Carina Nebula is so far away--between 6,500 and 10,000
light years from Earth. But the Carina Nebula is almost too large to imagine. One star within the Nebula is 100-150
times the mass of our own sun.
Admiring Christ means magnifying Him. It means making much
of Him, and little of ourselves. True worship and praise is the telescope of
magnification. Christ may seem far away, but as we begin to focus on Him, we
see His greatness, beauty, and worthiness.
Focusing on ourselves is using a microscope. It’s an attempt
to make what is very small larger.
And in the end we’ll never feel better or be better or do
better by looking at our small selves. It’s the vision of our Christ, the one
we love the most, the only one who is worthy, that will change our hearts,
transcend our circumstances, and empower us to become people who, at our best,
reflect His image.
Magnify Him!
Magnify Him!
