I said in my blog yesterday that when Gabriel, the messenger of God, told the young girl Mary that she would deliver to the world the Son of God- Jesus, she proclaimed, “My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46). But how does one’s soul magnify the Lord? Whatever magnifies, makes that which it magnifies more fully seen. So how can the soul of a person make God more fully seen. There are two basic types of magnification: the microscope and the telescope. The microscope makes things that are very tiny look very large, and the telescope makes things that are distant and large appear for what they really are. Mary’s soul treasured the infinite panorama of all of God’s goodness and glory. She did not behold God as through a microscope, and hope to add something to His being by making Him look bigger than He really is. Rather, Mary saw God for who He truly is and yearned to declare and make known His glory and worth to all. Reverend Henry Scougal in his treatise The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man says, “He who loves shameful and distasteful things does thereby become base and vile; but a noble and well-placed affection does advance and improve the spirit or soul unto conformity with the perfections which it loves”. In other words, “the worth and excellency of your soul is to be measured by the object of its love.” What are the objects of your soul’s affections today? Will your soul magnify the Lord today and thus improve with conformity into all of God’s perfections or will your soul magnify the base corruptions our culture has so intoxicated itself with and thus degenerate with conformity to all that is vile?
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