The Faithful
John the Baptist
Voice in the Wilderness
Humility
Scripture (NIV)
“He must become greater; I must become less.”
Message
John built a following and then handed it away. There is freedom in not needing to be the center of the story.
Practice
Give credit to someone else today, publicly, without adding your own part.
Prayer
Lord, make me smaller and You larger in how I live today. Amen.
Lived out
Short practices that fit John the Baptist's virtue of humility.
A practice to try
Twenty minutes, no headphones
“I walk the same loop most evenings with nothing in my ears. The first ten minutes are noise, lists, arguments I have already had. Somewhere in the second ten it goes quiet, and that is usually where I hear something true about myself that I had been outrunning.”
TRY TODAY
Walk for twenty minutes today with no audio and let the first ten minutes be noisy.
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”
Mark 1:35 (NIV)