Humbleness

Today I would like to talk about a famous man by the name of John the Baptist. John is role model of mine for many reasons, but one of the reasons is because he was an incredibly humble man. It is very hard to be humble but John was, let me explain how.
John chapter 1. It has many verse so I won't post them all, i'll save you the trouble and summarize it. Basically John the Baptist who is a cousin of Jesus, was preaching in Israel. And he was gathering quite a following. He was sharing the gospel, and most notably preparing the way for the lord. This is a somewhat difficult position to be in. I mean who likes to prepare the way for anyone, we all want to be the person in the spot light but John said no, my job is to prepare the way.

Now because he was gathering so many followers and performing miraculous signs people began to wonder if he was the messiah. They asked him, are you Elijah? are you the prophet? are the the Christ? wow what a hard position to be in. Are you the Christ. What if he had said yes. Do you realize how humble he needed to be to say no to essentially an opportunity to rule Israel. If he had said yes the Jews would have followed him and he could have easily led them in rebellion.
This was John's response.
"I am the voice of the one calling in the desert, prepare ye the way of the lord." He described the true Christ to them as, "He is the one who comes after me, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie."
This man was truly humble.

Later on in chapter 3. Jesus’ is becoming more and more popular and the people are rallying around him. Now John is in an awkward position. He used to be the guy but now he submitted of his own free will to let Jesus be the leader. John was related to Jesus. They were cousins and Jesus was younger. So he was submitting to his younger sibling and saying he is my lord and I’m unfit to untie his sandals. He was a humble man.

Then at the end of the chapter, John's disciples approached him saying that some man was baptizing people in the name of God. Basically they were saying this was your job, this other guy is trying to take your job should we take him out? John's response is incredible. He says, "He must become greater; I must become less. This man was Jesus of course and John realized that he needed to submit his will to God's.

John is a perfect example of Humility.