Wednesday, August 28, 2013
"Light-Unite" -3
"O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together." (Psalms 34:3) There are two ways to look at this word "together" that David is speaking of; one is a noun, and the other is an adverb; and if you don't know the difference between the two, a noun is a person , place or thing, whereas an adverb can modify a verb, adjective, another adverb, another phrase or a clause; and adverb indicates manner, time, place or degree and answers questions. How this works in a manner that is important for us to know, is that the word "together" is speaking of unity that we have in God, as in, a fixed place where we are taken in Him; meaning, as we magnify the Lord, we are lessened and He is exalted, thereby making us united in Him because He is lifted up; at the same time, we are united together in a group as those that are focused upon the Lord. Why does this really matters all that much, is really determined by what we are actually trying to accomplish when we come together to magnify the Lord; and based upon the previous verses, the actual reason is to praise God by continually giving Him the glory, and thereby boasting of His greatness and how greatly He is our all in all. That might not be what you see in this; but that's okay, because as long as you are praising God, your on the right track; the main thing that needs to be accomplished is to lessen ourselves, as in, we are less important and He is exalted. If we can get to a place where we care less about ourselves and more about pleasing Him, we can actually start to achieve something when it comes to being delivered from whatever it is that has us bound. Looking at Paul's use of this word "together", as in, "all things work together for good", it is a verb, speaking of an action that is taking place, as if to say, to partner in labor, or to assist, or put forth power. The reason this completes Paul thought in the previous verses that speak of the Spirit making intercession for us with groanings, is because we are assured that "all things" will work "together for good", although we might not see how that plays out, or understand the process in getting to the good from a bad looking situation, we know that the Spirit knows what it is that is needed; and although we might not know what to pray for, because there are no answers available on the horizon, the Spirit knows because the Spirit and the will of God are united as one; Jesus also making intercession for His saints according to the will of God the Father. This kind of goes back to that "falling backwards" thing I was speaking of before, in that we must just trust God is in control, and just let go... "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestine to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who (or what) can be against us?" (Romans 8:29-31)
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