“Well then, who are you?” they asked. “Are you Elijah?”
“No,” he replied.
“Are you the Prophet we are expecting?”
“No.”
“Then who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?”
John replied in the words of the prophet Isaiah: “I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Clear the way for the LORD’s coming!’”
---------» Gulped from John 1:21-23
This tells of how John was being mistaken for Christ and was asked to clarify. He made it known that he was God's messenger sent to pave way for the Lord's coming.
A lot of us today forget what we are called/sent to do. We cling unto glory that is not ours and take credit for God's work without acknowledging Him.
Some of people let self-pride overshadow them, become self-seeking and do little to honour our God.
The new year should have you showing more humility and acknowledging Christ in your ways. Be a true vessel of God and do not forget what you are called to do.
May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ help you do so, in Jesus' name...
God of the Bad Boys
God of the Bad Boys. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Man was created in the image and after God's likeness. But when he had encounter with the devil,his destiny was truncated because of sin. Sin had dominion over man that he thought abnormal things were normal. Even men that were very closed to God had it tough with sin. As believers we must understand that there is no small sin or Big sin.Murderers will go to hell as liers will go to hell.Thieves and fornicators will go as adulterers and ritualists will go there if they don't repent of their sin. Take the account of Abraham's journey to Egypt for instance in Gen 12:11-20.He got to the land and told a lie. Isaac was a boy of God that committed the same blunder in Gen 26:7-11 when the men of the land asked him about his wife,he said "she is my sister" because he was afraid to say "she was his w
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