These words of John the Baptist’s were spoken as his Ministry was winding down & the Ministry of Jesus was amping up…but they’re also very important words for us today. Charles Spurgeon once penned, “The more self sinks: like the two scales of a balance, one must go down that the other may go up: self must sink in repentance that Christ may rise in faith.” This has a lot to do with our old self vs our new self. Or as II Corinthians 5:17 says, ” If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has come.” As more and more of my old self dies, I am being filled with Jesus and His attributes. And as humility, repentance, and godlikeness grow within me…I’m becoming more like Jesus, and less like my old self…and in the process, glorifying & raising Him up high.
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