Here are some verses about God's greatness:
Psalm 145:3-6 "Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. I will meditate on the glorious splendour of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare Your greatness."
Isaiah 40:25,26 "'To whom then will you liken Me, or to whom shall I be equal?' says the Holy One. "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these (stars), Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power not one is missing."
Psalm 91:1 refers to our God as the Most High and the Almighty.
One of His names in Hebrew is El Shaddai, usually translated "Almighty God", meaning in effect "more than enough." He is also Jehovah, the literal meaning of which seems to be "He is", similar to the "I Am", eternal and self-existing. There are compound"Jehovah" names too that show who He is:
Jehovah Shammah = "the Lord is here" or "the ever-present One".
Jehovah Nissi = "the Lord my Banner (of victory)"
Jehovah Jireh = "the Lord my Provider" (Provision has 2 parts: pro which is before and vision, to see. He sees the need before we experience it and supplies the answer ahead of time.)
Jehovah Shalom = "the Lord is Peace"
Jehovah Tsidkenu = "the Lord my Righteousness"
Jehovah M'Kaddesh = "the Lord is my Sanctification"
Jehovah Rohi = "the Lord my Shepherd
Jehovah Rapha = "the Lord my Healer"
And there are more. But this is enough to remind us that God is all that we could ever need and more.
He is also omniscient (knows everything), omnipresent (is everywhere), omnipotent (all-powerful) and infinite (without limits of any kind).
So then, the question came to me when reading Psalm 34:3, "Oh, magnify the Lord with me", how can we possibly magnify Him? How can we make Him bigger than He already is? And the answer has to be this: when we look at something through a magnifying glass, that object doesn't change in size; it's only how it appears to us that changes. When we magnify God, it's just that we focus on Him and who and what He is, and He becomes greater in our view. Meditating on all of His names and attributes will open our eyes and give us a greater revelation of Him.
Let's remind ourselves to praise and thank and glorify Him: Psalm 69:30 "I will praise the name of God with a song, and will MAGNIFY Him with thanksgiving."
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