Lord, I promise to accept You as my diminisher as well as my multiplier. How often I have rejoiced in the word, “He turneth the wilderness into a standing [pool of] water” (Psalm 107:35, KJV)! Even more, I have rejoiced in seeing that very thing happen. Modern Israel is a demonstration of that word. And spiritually, many hearts and lives are testimony to it.
That is what You did for me, Lord, when I first heard Your name and gave my heart to You. The barren wilderness became green as the water of life started to trickle through my life. Fruit and flowers began to grow, and people began to notice and comment on them. That was the delightful life, and it still is when Your water makes my life green and beautiful.
But just as You multiply, so You can diminish. Just as You make me heavy with fruit, so You can dry me up like a desert skeleton. “He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the [fountains] into dry ground” (Psalm 107:33, KJV).
God diminishes me when I turn away from Him and seek other gods, such as fame, wealth, pleasure, and pride. I may be pleasant, like Naomi, but if I move from God’s land to Moab, the place of idols, my name will quickly become Marah (“bitterness”). I must remind myself of the many others in the Bible whom God diminished, such as Herod, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Gehazi, Pharaoh, and Ananias and Sapphira.
And yet, if I stay myself continually upon Him, He will multiply the little that I have. My barrenness will give way to fertile fields, and my puny strength will chase a thousand. I will be able to say with David, “By You [my God] I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall” (Psalm 18:29, Amp.). Lord, let me never know You as my diminisher, but always as my multiplier. You are sufficient for this, Lord; no one
else is.
“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze, and cut through their iron bars” (Isaiah 45:2).
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