More or Less

Self promotion is human nature.   Be the best you can be.   Make sure everyone knows that you are getting better... improving, climbing the ladder of success.  That is what our society teaches us.

But in John chapter 3, John the Baptist was answering people's questions and making sure people were not confusing him with Jesus.    He says, "He must become greater, I must become less."

How does that translate into who we are today and what we should be doing as followers of Christ?  It means we get out of the way.  When we are tempted to insist that we are the center, we remind ourselves that that isn't how it is supposed to work.  It's supposed to be that every day, the closer we get to Him, the more like Him and the less like ourselves we become..

That's powerful stuff.