Sometimes I'm singing in worship, and I think about exalting God, and lifting Him higher, and I wonder who I am that I could lift Him high. After all, I am so low, how could I actually lift Him higher? He is already so high...
But today I realized something. I haven't made Him as high as He ought to be in my life. God isn't asking us to be great enough to lift Him up through our greatness... He's simply asking us to lift Him up into His proper place in our lives. No matter how low we are, we can lift Him up higher in our lives, in our mindsets, and fully recognize how important He is to us and those around us. We can have more trust in Him each day, more hope in Him, more love for Him. We can give up control of our lives to Him... as we ought to have done already. This is how we lift Him higher, and no one is so low that they can't do this, no one is disqualified from, or unable to lift Jesus higher. It doesn't depend on our greatness, it recognizes His.
God is big enough, and great enough, that He doesn't need us to make Him greater than He actually is. But when we recognize His greatness in our lives, and start living that out, other people will see it and it will inspire others to make Him higher in their own lives as well, and in that sense we are exalting Him in the world around us as well. He has always been great, but in obedience in this way, we can partner with Him in the recognition of that greatness spreading. What we are doing is not making Him greater, but spreading His fame, making His Name more famous. You and I, no matter who we are, no matter what we've done or experienced, can exalt God in the way that He desires us to.
