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With our mind, with our meditation, with our constant thinking on something, we can magnify whatever we want in our head. God just wants to make sure that you’re magnifying the correct thing. 

Whatever it is, right now, that seems like such a big deal to you, it’s not that way because it’s necessarily a big deal. We can make anything seem like a big deal, even small things, if we meditate on it. 

Someone could get a report from the doctor, give respect to that report, meditate on that report, and it will seem like the biggest deal in the world. For that matter, one can meditate on all the potential dangers of crossing the street and make themselves terrified by everything that could go wrong. Really, you could even see a stick on the sidewalk, meditate on it enough, and terrify yourself with all the potential things that could go wrong if you tripped on it. 

This is a truth: Things seem big in our mind because they are exalted, not necessarily because they are a big deal. We can magnify or exalt anything we want in our mind. Sometimes that’s in admiration of something, and sometimes that’s in fear, but we can magnify anything. And we can choose to magnify the Lord, or we can magnify things that are contrary to the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (KJV) (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal… Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God…

You can meditate on, and exalt things, that are untrue and contrary to Jesus, or you can, as Elihu did, magnify the work of Jesus. Elihu was a man that lived before Jesus ever came, but he saw the work of Jesus far off in the future, and chose to meditate on, and magnify, that work in his mind.

Job 36:24-25 (KJV) Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

Truthfully, nothing in this world is a big deal anymore when you know that Jesus already overcame everything, and provided freedom and salvation to us from all these problems. It’s all incredibly small. What Jesus did is the only thing that’s truly a “big deal.”

And yet, we get to choose what we meditate on and magnify in our mind. We can choose to meditate on things in this world, and that will magnify and exalt them even above the knowledge of God. These things will seem enormous, not because they are, but because they have become exalted and magnified in your mind. Or we can choose to meditate and thank God for what Jesus has done. And that will rightly magnify the work of Jesus in our minds. The work of Jesus will then seem so awesome, and everything else will seem finished, and manifestly fading away. And rightly so.

So, choose to focus on everything Jesus has done for you. Meditate on it during your day. Talk about it with your friends. Always thank God for fighting your fight, defeating your problems, and loving you so much. 

It certainly takes time to pull down wrong thinking and promote the truth of the gospel, but please stick to it! It does work every time! If you devote your mind to meditating on the truth of Jesus, I promise you, Jesus will begin taking His rightful place in your mind, as the one who already solved all your problems, delivered you from every fear, and loved you more than anyone else has in this entire world. Then the work of Jesus will begin appearing as the truly big deal that it is. And everything else will look like the temporal, defeated, and empty thing that it is.

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