Selfies or Selfless?
Google Images While Jesus was in the desert being tempted by Satan, His cousin John was facing some temptations of his own. When Jesus appeared at the Jordan to ask to be baptized and John recognized Who He was, the Baptizer must have had an “aha” moment that he could only think about after Jesus had left him. He had finally met the One around Whom his birth, his life, his ministry revolved. There was no time to think about the significance of this meeting in the river except for John to say: “ I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? ” (Matthew 3:14). But after Jesus had left John must have spent a lot of time glorying in the fact that he had finally met the Messiah, the King of the kingdom about which he had preached, the One who would grant the repentance through His own death, to the people of whom John was demanding that repentance. We can only imagine just what was going through John’s mind. It was during that period that the authorities in Jerusalem, having heard...