Willing to be Forgotten: may I decrease so that he might increase

Do you live life that others may make much of you, or that they might make much of another? Do you point endlessly to you, or do you in every way point to Jesus Christ? John the Baptist understood that he must diminish as Jesus came onto the scene, simply for this reason: it was all about him – it was all about Jesus. Just as a friend of the bridegroom wouldn’t become jealous or enraged when the bridegroom’s time had come, and all attention was now paid to the bridegroom instead, so John un...