Today I will magnify you.

When I read the story of Joshua, these are words that I worry about the most. God told Joshua a few things that would lead to his success, which were basically about following the law and the commandments as given by the Lord. Later on, God tells Joshua, today I am about to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, so that they can know as I was with Moses, so am I with you. 

Now, my concern is this, how many of us including myself can be able to handle themselves with humility if God were to say these words to us. 

“Emmah, today I will magnify you in the sight of all…..” 

I think these are very scary words. I was having a conversation with God and I was saying “God I know, when I am in trouble, I can get on my knees and pray, when I am in distress I can call on you, when calamity strikes you are my refuge”…but what happens if you were to exalt me?

Think about it, most of us go to God in prayer based on wants. Our prayer life is God give me this, God give me that...i  need this and i need that....

Imagine if God were to give you all that your heart desires, if God were to tell you, the moment you desire, you have it….or like the Nakumat slogan “you need it, we’ve got it” and more than that it is yours. What then would keep you going back to God and having a deep and intimate fellowship with Him?

Sincerely thinking, most of us, without needs we have no prayer life and that is not the way our relationship with God was meant to be. 

So what happens when God magnifies us? Will we still desire the need for Him….?

As for me, I am on my knees praying to God to help me not to be proud, for when I am proud, I am walking in opposition with God… “He opposes the proud”..