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Daily Devotion: Psalm 40:16

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Psalm 40:16    "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified."

As children, we used to play hide and seek. I remember just a few years ago, my grandchildren wanted me to play hide and seek with them, but I quickly found out that I was too big to hide. No matter how much I tried, I could never squeeze between things to squat down and hide. Of course, they found me very quickly. There would be much laughter as we enjoyed that game together.  The game would go on and on, "Pops, let's play hide and seek!" Of course they knew they would find me first.

I realized as I typed that paragraph that our God is too big to hide from us. Everywhere we look, we can see God. The key to finding Him is that we must be looking for Him.  "Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee."   It is understood that those who truly are seeking God will find Him. There is another key to finding God that is found earlier in the 8th verse of this Psalm, "I delight to do thy will, O my God." I understand verses 7 and 8 are prophecies concerning Jesus, but they should apply to us also. We rejoice that we are joint-heirs with Christ, especially when it comes to receiving blessings. But being joint-heirs also includes that we should have the same mindset as Christ.  It is when I am seeking the will of God for my life that I will find Him and will be able to rejoice and be glad in Him. It is when I find Him that I will gladly magnify His Holy Name to others. I go back to the third verse of this Psalm in closing - When I give "praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD." May I be used as an instrument of magnification that others can see the glory of the Lord in me.

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