John the Baptist was,
“filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.” Luke 1:15 Jesus said, “Among them that are born of
women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. Matthew 3:8. John said, “Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29
During Easter season it is good to think of the man God
allowed to be born who would identify the Messiah.
John the
Baptist was a different sort of man with one purpose, to proclaim Jesus Christ
as the son of God. The two men met while each was still in his mother’s womb.
John leaped with joy when Mary, pregnant with Jesus, came to visit his mother. John
did what few people can do as he became less as Jesus became more. He even saw
his key disciples leave and attach themselves to Jesus says Henry Morris in his
Days of Praise booklet.
How many of
us can become humble as John the Baptist did?
Prayer: Dear Lord, Please give us some of
John the Baptist’s humility. Let us put others before ourselves in this crazy
world of things like, money, power, self-confidence in the wrong way and
narcissism. Help us to see Jesus with wonder turning our hearts to others.
Amen.
Sandra
Hilsabeck
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