100 Days with David 2025 Day 86: We must magnify the Lord in our lives.

There is a 13 year old boy who has become famous for the photos he takes with a smartphone. The photos show beautiful classic cars in a variety of interesting settings. But here’s the thing, the cars are actually models. He uses a technique called forced perspective to make the cars appear to be actual size. It’s amazing to look at his work and then see what he was actually using. The optical illusion accomplished through the forced perspective technique uses the distance between objects, and their relative sizes, to achieve the desired effect or illusion (make something look larger, smaller, nearer, or farther, than they actually are).

We’ve all seen those photos people take on vacation, making it look like they’re holding the Eiffel Tower or kissing the Sphinx; again, forced perspective. The same type of technique can also be used to fool the eye into thinking that some dangerous feat is being accomplished such as standing out on the edge of a very high cliff.

Anybody who is conscious of their size, already knows about the affect positioning has on perspective, and definitely will not be standing closest to the camera in a photo.

Now, think about it. Don’t we do the same thing with our thoughts, our focus, in terms of what seems big or small in our life? For a Christian, nothing should ever seem to be bigger than God. Given, most Christians would say they believe God is bigger and stronger than anything else. But, if we are consumed with worry over our situation, then somehow or another, in our heart and our mind, our situation has gotten between God and our “camera.”

If I view my problems through the word of God, I can clearly see that His word is true and my problems are not a catastrophe. If I am looking at God through my problems, then I make God small, way off somewhere, as my problems loom big and threateningly in my face.

In today’s portion from David’s psalms, we see David talking about magnifying the Lord. This statement comes within the context of a prayer where he is asking the Lord to deliver him. But no matter how bad David’s problems ever got, he always seemed to make sure that God was in front of his problems. No wonder David could declare,

“I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭16:8‬ ‭NKJV

Yes, David started early on to put the Lord in front of the challenge at hand. This is why he successfully went up against a menacing giant who had the armies of Israel bamboozled.

“Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.””

‭‭I Samuel‬ ‭17‬:‭45‬-‭47‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Child of God, if your difficulties are seeming to be bigger than God, it’s time for a perspective shift. Put God back in the forefront of your thinking and let the problems recede into the background where they belong!

For today let us know and understand what David knew:

We must magnify the Lord in our lives.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!