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Lavelle总爱随时引吭高歌。有些人会低声哼唱童年时最喜欢的诗歌，但Lavelle却不是这样。他会竭尽全力发出最大声的赞美，他就是神恩典和良善的一个活见证。诚然，Lavelle喜欢有人听他唱歌，但更重要的是他想赞美神。他想表达他的内心——宣扬出神在他生命中的工作。Lavelle要唱出他内心的赞美。

在《路加福音》一章，我们看到马利亚也有一首歌要唱。她唱道：“我的心颂扬主”，因为她感恩神在万民中拣选了她，成为世界的救主耶稣基督的母亲。

其他译本把这句翻译为“我的心尊主为大”，尊主为大的意思是高举放大，就像用一个放大镜的视角来观看那样。对我们来说，马利亚是一个好榜样，她谦卑自己，并且让基督在她生命中显为大。就如施洗约翰后所告白的：“他必兴旺，我必衰微。”（约 3:30）

有没有一首令你重新校准生命方向的歌？这是一首能够提醒你，神、宇宙和耶稣的爱是何等伟大，神在你内心放置了哪些诗歌来使你尊主为大呢？

Lavelle tends to break into song at any given moment. Not like someone humming a favorite hymn from their childhood. Oh no. Lavelle will bellow and blast out a note of praise at the top of his lungs. He is a living testimony of God's grace and goodness.

Now, it's true that Lavelle likes having an audience. But even more so, he needs to praise God. He needs to express what is inside of him—belting out praise for who God is in his life. Lavelle has inside of him a song to sing.

In Luke 1 we read that Mary had a song to sing. And she sang, "My soul glorifies the Lord," because God had chosen her—of all people!—to carry the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ.

Other translations read, "My soul magnifies the Lord." To magnify is to make bigger—like with a magnifying glass. For us, Mary became a model of a decreased self while Christ increased in her and in her life. As John the Baptist would later say, "He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30)

Do you sing a song that puts life back into perspective—where you are reminded just how big God, creation, and the love of Jesus are? What are the songs that God has put in your soul to magnify the Lord?