I was thinking about my wife today.
Yeah, I know it makes a change, but I was.
As I thought about her, I thought about how much of a big deal she is to me and compared her to other things that I’m likely to be passionate about. I love me football, I love reading and writing, I love watching and discussing about the television programme Doctor Who. I love various sorts of music and listening to it as well as watching music videos on YouTube. I love issues of philosophy, culture and politics. I love movies.
I mean it when I say I love those things because I’m delighted to invest time, energy and money in those things.
So for example, I’d make a big deal about football and what goes on in the game. It will take up conversation, I might write about it, I’m now in the position to watch the occasional game (albeit at a level far lower than the Premier League), I’d invest money into watching it via the pay subscription. It’s a big deal.
But …
My wife really is a big deal – in fact she’s a far bigger deal, than all those other deals. It makes sense that I make a big deal of her and invest a greater level of time, energy and resources into her. It makes sense that I prioritise her above the other things when the crunch comes to it, and I have more to say about her, than I do for all those other things.
But …
Jesus Christ is an even bigger deal than my wife – which is saying something because not even my parents are as big a deal to me as my wife. (True story, after all I didn’t commit my life and deepest intimacies to my parents.)
As a result of that, it is perfectly reasonable to expect Him to have an all consuming, comprehensively demanding, all-embracing hold on my life that truly makes Him a big deal. Everything makes sense with Him. If I make a big deal of one of those smaller deals, then how much more is it incumbent of me to make a big deal of one who I consider to be The Big Deal.
That’s not to say I don’t talk about the other deals. It is to say, when I look at the word ‘magnify’ when we say things like ‘Magnify Him’, it is not an issue of just saying praise Him, it is living a life and pursuing, expressing and explaining something that is worth the time, energy and resources.
That’s what all the big deal is about when it comes to magnifying.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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