Psalm 70:4
"Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: and let such as love Thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified."
There are two precious states of being, in the mind and in the heart through which the LORD will bring every one of His children. The first is to be lost. You may say, "How is that a blessing?"
Well, when you are going through it, it is not easy to be lost, to be exposed, to see your utter helplessness before a Holy God, as a dead body in a grave. When the Holy Spirit opens your blind eyes, you see your own sinfulness and depravity and darkness. Oh, but then comes the second state which is to be found!
"I will make darkness Light before them," (Isaiah 42:16)
"To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house." (Isaiah 42:7)
Your dead eyes are opened to see the Light. Christ is revealed by the Holy Spirit and we see, by contrast, our darkness which magnifies the Light, and we know it is Good!
"For Thou art my Lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will Lighten my darkness." (2 Samuel 22:29)
Lost and found are the two states which every one of the LORD's children will be brought through in their lifetime and in both cases do you know what such a one will declare? "Let God be magnified."
I thank God He did not leave me to myself to continue in the darkness of self-righteousness, in the way of death that I was going. The LORD showed me who I was. He showed me that I was lost and caused me to be found by the Only Savior, to be found by the Great Shepherd of the sheep: "Now the God of Peace, that brought again from the dead our LORD Jesus, that Great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant," (Hebrews 13:20)
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