Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 1 verses 24 through 27:
24 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees. 25They asked him, ‘Why then are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?’ 26John answered them, ‘I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not know, 27the one who is coming after me; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandal.’
I have tremendous respect for John the Baptist. Coarse and crusty and a lot more fundamental than I am, he nevertheless demonstrated a humility which we all could learn from — especially us in the ministry.
John was not a prisoner to his own ego. He was not consumed by his numbers or his name. He was content to preach the Gospel as he understood it, to tell the truth as he saw it, and to recognize the moment of the coming of the Lord when he witnessed it.
Jesus said, “Of those born of women no one was greater than John the Baptist; but even the least in the kingdom is greater than he.”
I think John was fine with that; and it proved the point.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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